subject: Man on Mission to Assassinate Osame Bin Laden! [print this page] Man on Mission to Assassinate Osame Bin Laden!
As followers of our website know, most of our blog posts are related to Denver, Colorado criminal defense law. However, every now and then, a national story, unrelated to criminal defense, catches our eye. This story is one that we definately thought interesting enough to write about. The Associated Press reports that an American man was detained in northern Pakistan while trying to cross the border into Afghanistan. His purpose? To single handedly assassinate Osama Bin Laden.
To help him accomplish this mission, the man armed himself with a pistol and a 40 inch sword. Of course no such mission is complete without also arming yourself with a little marijuana and Christian literature, which this man, not surprisingly, also had with him.
Our thoughts on this story? Well, one would have to be close to insane to even visit northern Pakistan in the first place, but to believe that you could actually pull off what the American military has failed to do in nine years by yourself? That is insane. Unfortunately for the state of Colorado, there is a connection. The man's sister lives in Grand Junction, Colorado. The man's sister states that he is very ill with a kidney disorder, but that she does not believe that he went on this mission thinking he would go out in a blaze of glory. She states that he is very religious and that this is probablyhis motivation. It is crazy what some people will, or think they will, do in the name of religion.
