Afghanistan Expert Gary Bowersox To Lecture in Honolulu This Week

HONOLULU, HAWAII – Afghanistan and gem expert Gary Bowersox will be making a series of presentations to be held on November 22, 24 & 25, 2006. He’ll talk about his exciting travels to Afghanistan to buy rubies, sapphires and lapis, his brushes with the Taliban and his insight into the war including his most recent trip this year.


Gary has a rare collection of 60,000 gems valued from $2 to $100,000 which are now on display in his new Gem Museum/Store which is located in the Waikiki Galleria Office Towers at 2222 Kalakaua, Honolulu. Nobody in Hawaii has more high quality gems at terrific prices than Gary Bowersox. www.TheGemHunters.com

The Gem Museum/Store is the dream fulfilled of Gary Bowersox, gem hunter and adventurer and author of Gem Hunter, True Adventures of an American in Afghanistan (ISBN 0-9747323-1-1 $29.95, 505 pages).

Bowersox returned from spending three weeks traveling in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan during the month of August. Bowersox was described as a "modern day Indiana Jones" by Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America, "Except Indiana Jones never had live rounds fired over his head," Bowersox quickly adds.

Bowersox, who once stood next to Osama Bin Laden, knows more than anyone else about the sites where the World's Most Wanted may be hiding. One of the few Americans who knows Afghanistan like the back of his hand, Bowersox also knows who is protecting Bin Laden and why, and why Bin Laden could not have remained "hidden" this long without major support from "friends."

Bowersox was personal friends with the late Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Northern Alliance leader Bin Laden had assassinated a few days before the events of September 11, 2001.

A world renowned gem hunter, explorer and author, Bowersox served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense shortly after September 11th. "The Department of Defense wanted to know about Afghanistan — where the landmines were, the tunnels, where the troops were, and who's who in the Northern Alliance and where their loyalties lay," explains Bowersox

Bowersox has traveled to more than 80 countries and worked with gem miners in Afghanistan, Brazil, Burma, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. He has chaired eight symposiums from 1982 to 2001 on gems and minerals of Afghanistan, and was presenter/consultant on "The Gem Hunter in Afghanistan 2001", a 50-minute television documentary. For more information call: 808-792-3332 or 808-277-2543. The lectures on November 22, 24 & 25, 2006 are scheduled at 11am, 3:30pm and 5:30pm. (Closed Thanksgiving Day)

The museum is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

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