US businessman wants $25m reward for ‘finding’ Osama bin Laden

A US businessman claims he is owed a
$25million (£15.7m) reward for a tip-off
revealing where Osama bin Laden was
hiding in Pakistan.
Tom Lee, a 63-year-old gem merchant,
claims he told the FBI where the world’s
most wanted man for over a decade was
hiding in 2003.
A Pakistani intelligence agent told him he
had escorted bin Laden and his family
from Peshawar to Abbottabad that year,
he claims.
Mr Lee said the agent was a member of a
family he ‘had done business with for
decades’ and that he shared the
information with customs and FBI agents.
‘Mr Lee precisely identified the
whereabouts of the most notorious
terrorist of our era,’ his lawyer wrote in a
letter to FBI director James Comey in
August.
‘A man responsible for the World Trade
Centre attacks, the most devastating act
of terror committed on American soil, and
numerous other assaults on Americans.’
The letter said Mr Lee has made
‘numerous attempts’ to claim his reward
but has yet to receive a response.
‘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,’ Mr Lee
told the Grand Rapids Press.
Bin Laden was killed in May 2011 during a
Navy SEAL raid. US officials believe the
compound was not built until 2005.
Adapted from The Metro

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