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Chicago Tribune
November 2, 2013
A Michigan gem merchant who claims he tipped the FBI to the location of Osama bin Laden’s secret compound in Pakistan eight years before his killing has hired a high-powered Chicago law firm to help him seek the $25 million reward offered for the terrorist’s capture.
Tom Lee, 63, of Grand Rapids, “accurately reported” to an FBI special agent in 2003 that Bin Laden was hiding in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, according to a letter sent in August addressed to FBI Director James Comey by an attorney for the Loevy & Loevy firm.
Lee’s account, however, differs from numerous published reports that the bin Laden compound wasn’t even completed until 2005. U.S. officials were quoted as saying it was believed bin Laden didn’t move to the complex until early 2006. One of bin Laden’s wives who was taken into custody after the 2011 raid reportedly told interrogators they had been there for five or six years.
Lee, a U.S. citizen of Egyptian descent, said he learned of the compound’s location from a Pakistani intelligence agent who told him he had escorted bin Laden and his family from Peshawar to Abbottabad. The agent was a member of an anti-al-Qaida family that had done business with Lee for decades, according to a copy of the letter provided by the law firm.
Lee said he relayed the information to a U.S. customs agent who had worked with Lee on investigations into corruption in the international gem trade. Lee and the customs agent later met with an FBI agent, who wrote a report of the interview. A compact disc copy of an interview the customs agent purportedly gave verifying Lee’s claims was sent with the letter but not made public by the law firm.
Bin Laden was killed in May 2011 during a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs on the heavily fortified compound in Abbottabad, about 70 miles north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
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