This is pretty ‘cool’. lol Jerry Cool painted this thing after a dream, and years later felt that the painting he put together was of Gary Faulkner and his quest to find Bin Laden. That is just wild.
In other news about Gary, it sounds like Al Qaeda and company has put a bounty out on him. I haven’t been able to really confirm that, but it makes sense that they would. I say that because the Taliban and Al Qaeda already have a bounty system going on for any soldiers they can kill or capture. –Matt
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Bin Laden hunter receives painting
July 21, 2010
Gary Faulkner, the Greeley man who was detained in Pakistan last month while on a mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden, sits Tuesday in front of a painting called “A Renaissance Dream of 9-11: The Killing of Osama bin Laden” at the home of artist Jerry Cool in Muncie, Ind.
MUNCIE, Ind. – An Indiana man who says he dreamed two years ago of a bearded man slaying Osama bin Laden has given a painting of the dramatic scene to a Colorado man arrested in Pakistan while hunting for the al-Qaida leader.
Jerry Cool, 63, told The Star Press of Muncie that he was “shocked” when he saw Gary Faulkner talking on CBS’s “Late Show With David Letterman” on June 28 about his arrest in northern Pakistan earlier that month.
“Once I saw Gary on TV, I knew that was him in my vision,” Cool told the newspaper. “To me, he’s the only one that deserves that painting.”
Faulkner, a bearded, 52-year-old unemployed construction worker from Greeley, says he traveled to Pakistan to kill bin Laden. He was carrying a pistol, a sword and night-vision goggles when detained in mid-June near the border with Afghanistan.
Cool, who has a beard himself, said that in 2008, he dreamed of a “man with gray hair and a dark beard” killing the al-Qaida leader, and that he committed the scene to canvas.
The painting, “A Renaissance Dream of 9-11: The Killing of Osama bin Laden,” shows a bin Laden-like figure on one knee in a thigh-length white robe and sandals, wielding a sword. He’s being stabbed with a spear by what appears to be an armored Roman soldier with a beard, while two others fight on horseback in the foreground.
After Faulkner’s “Letterman” appearance, Cool reached out to Faulkner’s brother and told him he wanted to give Faulkner his painting. Scott Faulkner told his brother, who called Cool on Sunday and arranged to stop in Muncie while driving back to Colorado from a visit to Massachusetts.
Faulkner told the paper he shared the vision Cool painted.
“When I saw it, I knew it instantly. I told my brother, ‘I know this place,”‘ he said.
Faulkner told the newspaper he’s going to hang the painting in his living room.
Story here.