Michigan man claims bounty on bin Laden
DETROIT – A Michigan man claims he tipped federal investigators to the location of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan eight years before his killing and has hired attorneys to help him collect the $25 million reward.
The al-Qaida leader was killed in May 2011 during a Navy SEAL raid on the three-story compound. U.S. officials have said the house wasn’t built until 2005, and Pakistani officials have said they believe he moved there in the summer of that year.
A letter obtained Friday by The Associated Press from a Chicago-based law firm representing Grand Rapids resident Tom Lee says the 63-year-old gem merchant reported the location of bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad in 2003.
800 attend memorial for ex-House speaker
SPOKANE, Wash. – Former U.S. House Speaker Tom Foley was remembered Friday as a statesman, a husband and a friend to people.
About 800 people attended a memorial service for the Spokane native at St. Aloysius Church on the campus of his alma mater, Gonzaga University.
The Democrat died Oct. 18 at his home in Washington, D.C., of complications from a stroke. He was 84.
“He represented the best the state of Washington had to offer,” said Gov. Jay Inslee. “It is a great honor to represent 6½ million Washingtonians in honoring this titan of our democracy.”
Foley served five years as speaker of the House.
Associated Press
