Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 11/03/2013 4:23:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
In 2003, eight years before Osama bin Laden was found and killed by U.S. Navy SEALs, Grand Rapids resident Tom Lee says he told federal investigators exactly where to find the world’s most wanted terrorist.
That should qualify Lee for the $25 million award being offered for the successful capture of bin Laden, according to a letter his lawyers have sent to Federal Bureau of Investigations Director James B. Comey.
“It disturbs me, and it should disturb every American, that I told them exactly where bin Laden was in 2003, and they let him live another eight years,” Lee said in an email interview with The Grand Rapids Press/MLive.com on Friday, Nov. 1.
Lee, an international gem merchant who frequently traveled in the Middle East, said he learned of bin Laden’s whereabouts from a Pakistani intelligence agent who told him bin Laden was in Peshawar, a city in Pakistan, not Afghanistan.
“The man further described how he had been dispatched on a mission by the ISI to relocate Bin Laden and his family from Peshawar to a small compound in Bilal, Abbottavbad,” according to the letter sent by Lee’s Chicago lawyer, Michael Kanovitz.
“This is the precise location where Bin Laden was eventually located and killed in 2011,” the letter said.
“I have no idea why they let him live for eight years,” Lee said. “At the time I told them where he was in Pakistan, they were still feverishly hunting for him in Afghanistan, which he left two years before.”
Lee, who claims to have provided the U.S. government with intelligence information on previous occasions, said the lack of action surprised him.
“For 20 years I was used to the government acting immediately on my intelligence,” he said.
In an Aug. 6, 2013, letter to Comey, Kanovitz said Lee has personally attempted to collect the $25 million award by contacting the Grand Rapids FBI field office.
“Unfortunately, all of Mr. Lee’s communications to that office have gone unanswered to date, as has his electronic submissions to the FBI via its website.”
Lee, a native of Grand Rapids West Side, has a long history of being involved in unorthodox adventures, including his 1997 purchase of a royal title as “Lord of the Manor” in Stanbury, England.
In the mid-1990s, Lee founded Gem River Corp. after discovering sapphire deposits in a remote region of Montana. The need to polish the raw sapphires led him to the Far East and Middle East to seek out gem polishers.
For a time in the late 1990s, Lee operated a heat treating facility in Kentwood that enhanced the color of the raw sapphires extracted from his mine.
Lee said he is halfway through his new book, the working title of which is, “We Only Catch The Dumb Ones, The True Story of an Unlikely Spy.”
Sorry Tom. I think Barry Soetoro already claimed the $25 million dollar prize.
“Lord of the Manor”
My handle is ‘He-Man, Master of the Universe’. Or just He-man, or he or man.
Has anyone ever actually seen proof that he is dead?
I know I haven’t.
How about the fact that the whole story was fabricated?
Don’t count on getting that 25 million from Obama, but your claim of notifying the US government in 2003 of OBL’s whereabouts is suspect.
I haven’t seen any proof that he was still alive at that time.
We don’t know if that coonskin really was nailed to the wall.
He traveled to the other side of the world looking for people to polish his gems.
Why not just buy a sack of polishing compound and a tumbler?
He-Man
Nor me.
But what I have seen is that my government lies about every single thing, 100% of the time, all day, every day.
Do I believe he’s dead?
Not for a second.
Might now become target on the back.
Mr. Lee has an IRS audit in his future.
Barry 0'Cades people promised a million-dollar reward for something, and refuses to acknowledge or pay off.
The same campaigner who promised you can keep your doctor and health care plan.
From the same party whose leader fervently believes you have to pass a law before you can find out what's in it.
Or to re-clarify from the words of another member: "What difference, at this point, does it make?"
Whose previous leader once famously intoned: "I did not have ... relations with that woman, not a single time." and "It depends on what the definition of 'Is' is."
Oooh. Me little heart bleeds for him, it does. Cue the tiny violins, please.
Lee, a native of Grand Rapids West Side, has a long history of being involved in unorthodox adventures, including his 1997 purchase of a royal title as “Lord of the Manor” in Stanbury, England.
Or a bus
WAS he really killed? This regime has lied about so much, I don't think Bin Laden is dead!
Offer a good settlement. A picture of Bin Laden’s body with 2 SEALS giving a thumbs up to the camera.
Whoever wrote the script for “Bin Laden Raid: The Movie” probably used this guy’s letter to choose a location for the big scene.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.