Iran to target Florida sites with Kamikaze drones off boats from Venezuela base as Tyndall AFB Panama City Fl bans boats within 500 feet of coastline

UPDATE; IRAN TERROR BOSS TERMINATED, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' intelligence chief Brig. Gen. Majid Khademi killed, he had helped advance terrorist attacks in Israel and abroad and attempts to target American individuals. Last night (Sunday), the Israeli Air Force, acting with precise IDF intelligence, conducted a strike in Tehran and eliminated Majid Khademi, the Head of Intelligence of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), good shooting boys, LOL! On the same day, Tampa Florida CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper directed a strike on an IRGC headquarters in an underground facility near Tehran on Sunday, 4/05/2026, top level sources told Fox News.U.S. forces carried out the strike with B2 bombers, using the same bunker buster weapons used in Operation Midnight Hammer. The sources say the headquarters was "obliterated."

SNAKES IN THE BACKYARD GRASS; I personally have declared Moharebeh against Mojtaba Khamenei the Iran Supreme Leader and proud of "whoever" tipped of ICE Agents about Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and Sarina Hosseini anti America posts online while living it up in Los Angeles! Glad I worked for ICE Agents as a CI in a support of terrorism money laundering case in Sarasota Fl. Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and Sarina Sadat Hosseini are the niece and grandniece of Qasem Soleimani the Iranian general killed in a 2020 US drone strike ordered by Trump and are facing deportation after U.S. Sec of State Marco Rubio revoked their green cards. Officials say Hamideh Soleimani Afshar openly supported Iran’s regime, praised attacks on Americans, and referred to the U.S. as the “Great Satan,” while living a lavish lifestyle in the United States. On April 3, 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Hamideh Soleimani Afshar (identified as the niece of slain Iranian General Qasem Soleimani) and her daughter, Sarina Sadat Hosseini (identified as his grandniece), at their home in Tujunga, California, part of the Los Angeles area. WHAT IS Moharebeh (waging war against God) which is a capital offense in Iran, derived from Islamic law, which is actively used against political opponents, protesters, and those threatening the regime. This charge often applies to actions involving weapons to cause insecurity, treason, or "threats against the Supreme Leader", with executions for this crime occurring regularly.

Unauthorized drones detected over US Air Force base housing nuclear-capable B-52 bombers: military base Barksdale AFB in Louisiana confirmed the sightings and warned that flying a drone over a military installation is a federal criminal offense. They are not hobbyist drones. Reports indicate they entered and exited base perimeters in ways designed to avoid detection, as if testing response protocols. see more at Fox News... https://www.foxnews.com/us/unauthorized-drones-detected-over-u-s-air-force-base-housing-nuclear-capable-b-52-bombers-military

NYP April 2nd, 2026 Iran threatens ‘destructive’ attacks on US after Trump declares war an ‘overwhelming victory’. Ibrahim Zolfaqari a spokesman for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters, (military operational command), threatened on Thursday to launch crushing and destructive attacks on the US, death to America, after President Trump declared Operation Epic Fury an “overwhelming” victory in an address to the nation.The Iranian Tasnim News Agency quoted Ibrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, asserting that the information held by the "Zionist and American enemy" regarding the scale of Iran's military capabilities and equipment is "incomplete and inaccurate." Zolfaqari emphasized that the enemies possess no real understanding of Iran’s vast strategic potential, noting that strategic military production takes place in secret locations "about which the enemy knows nothing."

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Iran could have hit Washington, D.C., and other major U.S. cities like Tampa Fl where US Military CentCom is located with intermediate-range ballistic missiles through proxies in Venezuela if the Trump administration had not intervened in both countries (STILL ONGOING). U.S. officials and think tanks have previously warned that Iranian intermediate-range ballistic missiles or armed drones stationed in Venezuela could reach U.S. cities, including those in Florida. Miami Herald writes; Venezuela prepares for potential U.S. attack with armed drones designed by Iran. For those of you who are unaware, there a 5 strategic military bases located in the Florida Panhandle. Iran has established a significant military footprint in Venezuela, focusing on drone production. From the Pensacola Naval base to Eglin Air Force Base to Hurlburt Air Force Base, (both very near Fort Walton Beach Fl), to the Naval Station in Panama City Beach and to Tyndall Air Force Base which is 10 miles from Panama City Fl. All these military bases are near or on the Gulf shoreline and near heavily traveled tourist destinations, it is 150 miles from Pensacola to Tyndall AFB. 

On December 30, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions targeting the Iran-Venezuela drone pipeline, designating Empresa Aeronáutica Nacional S.A. (EANSA) and nine other individuals and entities for their role in transferring combat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capabilities between Tehran and Caracas. This marked the first time that the United States Government has publicly acknowledged that Iran has been using Venezuela as a proxy to wage war against the U.S. in our own hemisphere. Iran Gen Shekarchi claims to target Florida tourist sites and military bases from Venezuela base with Kamikaze drones launched off Iranian boats in Gulf of America as Tyndall Air Force Base Panama City Fl bans boaters within 500 feet of coastline. *NOTE; US Concerned About Venezuela’s Drone Cooperation With Iran. "Iran has established a military and technological presence in Venezuela, focusing on drone development. The partnership includes a military weaponized drone manufacturing facility at El Libertador Air Base", among them are the ZAMORA V-1 (Shahed-131) Kamikaze drone, used for one-way attack missions. The ZAMORA V-1 (Shahed-131) Kamikaze drone can be launched from boat or ship with a one way range of about 550 miles.

Iran-designed combat drones are actively assembled and operated at the El Libertador Air Base in Palo Negro, Aragua State, Venezuela see map above. This facility, which serves as a major Venezuelan Air Force base near Maracay, acts as a primary hub for the Venezuelan-Iranian drone program, frequently supported by Venezuelan state-owned aviation company EANSA (Empresa Aeronáutica Nacional S.A.) in coordination with Iran's Qods Aviation Industries. Since 2006, Iran and Venezuela have coordinated Iran’s provision of Qods Aviation Industries’ (QAI) Mohajer-series UAVs for Venezuela, which are re-branded in Venezuela as ANSU-series UAVs. In October 2023, OFAC designated QAI pursuant to E.O. 13949 being owned or controlled by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL).EANSA is chaired by Venezuela-based Jose Jesus Urdaneta Gonzalez, see his photo.

I am originally from Panama City Fl, I did a lot of work as a vetted contractor on Tyndall AFB, I had full access, 24-7, to all areas even the flight line. Tyndall AFB has never done anything like this 500 buffer zone around the base, even during the Iraq War! UPDATE Mar 27, 2026, Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City Fl restricts all boating within 500 feet of their Gulf of Mexico coastline amid elevated threat from Iran, STAY BACK 500 FEET! Base security forces are actively monitoring the area. Iran's senior military spokesman, General Abolfazl Shekarchi, warned on March 20, 2026, that "parks, recreational areas and tourist destinations" worldwide will no longer be safe for Americans and Israelis, signaling a potential expansion of retaliatory attacks. This threat suggests a shift towards targeting civilian-heavy areas globally, just as spring break kicked off across the United States.

Iran Gen Shekarchi claims to target Florida tourist sites from Venezuela bases as Tyndall Air Force Base Panama City Fl restricts boaters from within 500 feet of Florida panhandle coastline near Tyndall Air Force base. Tyndall Air Force Base will activate a new maritime restricted area along its coastline starting March 27 to boost security in response to an elevated threat level, base officials said Friday. Prohibiting all unauthorized boating, anchoring, and swimming within 500 feet of the shore.

The restriction will extend 500 feet from the shoreline along Tyndall AFB installation’s 15 mile coast and will remain in place for the duration of the heightened security posture. The move follows directives from U.S. Northern Command, the base said in a statement. “The security of our personnel, their families, and the national security assets on Tyndall Air Force Base is one of my key responsibilities,” Col. Christian Bergtholdt, 325th Fighter Wing commander, said. “This restriction is a prudent and necessary step to address a valid security concern. I understand this will affect some members of our local community, and I appreciate their cooperation and understanding as we take these required measures to safeguard our personnel and mission.”

TERROR THREAT; MacDill Air Force Base CentCom in Tampa has been operating under FPCON Charlie—the second-highest military threat level—since at least Tuesday, March 17, 2026. The base was at Force Protection Condition Charlie (FPCON Charlie), indicating intelligence suggesting the possibility of a terrorist attack. MacDill Air Force Base CentCom Tampa Fl is center of U.S. military operations in Iran & Middle East.

March 21, 2026..Iran launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles aimed at a joint US-UK military base 2,500 miles away in the Indian Ocean, but failed to hit its target, according to a new report. Iran Watch, part of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, found that some Iranian missiles can reach up to 2,500 miles, roughly the distance to Diego Garcia. Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago, is an atoll and part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The base houses American bombers, nuclear submarines and guided-missile destroyers.

Iran military spokesman Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi makes chilling threat to target tourist sites in Florida from Venezuela as spring break kicks off in US. What are the target cities in Florida? Panama City Beach, Daytona Beach, Fort Lauderdale or Miami? Iran has established a significant military footprint in Venezuela, focusing on drone production and supplying fast-attack boats with anti-ship missiles rather than permanent, verified missile bases for long-range ballistic missiles. 

Reports suggest Iranian technicians work in Venezuela, and Iran has deployed CM-90 missiles there, utilizing Venezuela as a regional partner to project power near the U.S..US intelligence reports from 2011/2012 mentioned plans for a long-range rocket base on the Paraguaná Peninsula. Iran has supplied Venezuela with Peykaap III class fast attack craft equipped with anti-ship missiles to bolster its naval capabilities and counter U.S. influence, they need to get within 50 miles of the coast of Florida to be effective.

Iran has supplied its CM-90 anti-ship cruise missiles—an export variant of the Iranian Nasir missile—to the Venezuelan military, where they were officially unveiled and stationed at naval bases as of April 2024. The CM-90 is a short-range, 50 mile range, radar-guided missile designed for small vessels and coastal defense, significantly boosting Venezuela's maritime strike capabilities.


Sarasota Private Investigator Bill Warner, True Crime Stories, Bill Warner Investigations Sarasota Fl.

ICE Agents Operation Green Quest 9/11 Terrorist Funding Investigation in Sarasota Fl That I Was Part of in 2002 Shut Down by FBI in June 2003.

FOLLOW THE MONEY; ICE Agents 'Operation Green Quest' 9/11 Terrorist Funding Investigation in Sarasota Fl that I was part of and Led by Michael Chertoff was Shut Down by the FBI in Tampa Because it Linked to Sept 11th 2001 hijackers that lived in Sarasota County Fl. The ICE Operation Green Quest investigation into terrorist funding in Sarasota Fl led by Michael Chertoff was getting results all during 2002 to 2003 but the FBI shut it down. In March 2003, Customs and Operation Green Quest were transferred to ICE, within the Department of Homeland Security. From July to October 2003, the FBI provided a list of individuals, businesses, and organizations to the vetting unit that it believed were related to pre-Agreement ICE Operation Green Quest investigations. Customs (ICE) expanded Operation Green Quest in January 2003 by doubling the personnel commitment to a total of approximately 300 agents and analysts nationwide to work solely on terrorist financing matters. A review of the list by the vetting unit and TFOS identified approximately 30 potential crossover subjects linked to terrorism.  

The FBI believed that these subjects had ties to terrorism or terrorist financing-and, accordingly, per the Agreement's collaborative procedures-any related ICE investigations should be transitioned to JTTFs. According to ICE officials, in late-October 2003, TFOS demonstrated that 10 of the approximately 30 subjects had a confirmed nexus to terrorism or terrorist financing, and ICE agreed to transition the related ICE investigations to JTTFs. As a result of conflicts between the FBI and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE, in May 2003 the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff signed an agreement concerning terrorist financing investigations. 

Operation Green Quest 9/11 Investigation in Sarasota Fl was disbanded in June 2003 it had commenced in October 2001, it lasted just 20 months, WHY? DHS acknowledged that the Department of Justice, through the FBI, was the lead agency in the fight against terrorist financing, and that any terrorist financing investigations would have to be conducted under the auspices of the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force. Secret ICE Operation Green Quest Investigation of 9/11 Support Network in 2002 shut down by FBI in June 2003. The FBI appears to have 'protected' the Saudi family in Prestancia Sarasota Fl. The ICE 2002 - 2003 Operation Green Quest Investigation of 9/11 Terrorist Support Network in Sarasota Fl, "follow the money," Saudi funded Ministry of Islamic Affairs linked to support of 9/11 terrorists. Wealthy Saudi Royals connected Esam Ghazzawi and his son Adel Ghazzawi and son-in-law Abdulaziz al-Hijji, who lived in Ghazzawi's Prestanci home in Sarasota, had been on the ICE terrorist funding watch list. Esam Ghazzawi's influence extends to his son. His 42-year-old son, Adel Ghazzawi (who also lived in the Sarasota Prestancia home), is a board member of the New York-based think tank 'EastWest Institute', which counts the likes of Michael Chertoff as a member of the Board of Directors, and director of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and co-author of the Patriot Act. 

In 2011 Michael Chertoff, who led Operation Green Quest investigation, and Adel Ghazzawi, who linked to Sarasota house in Prestancia and Huffman Aviation in Venice, are Board Members of EastWest Institute New York. In the summer of 2001 Anoud al-Hijji’s 18-year-old brother, Salman Ghazzawi, also lived at the home in Prestancia. The fox, Michael Chertoff, was guarding the 9/11 hen house in Sarasota.

In October 2001, Michael Chertoff was appointed head of Operation Green Quest by Pres George Bush, a multi-agency initiative to target sources of funding for terrorist organizations, according to a U.S. Customs Service (later ICE) press release. Underground financial systems, illicit charities, and corrupt financial institutions are among the entities to be scrutinized as possible facilitators of terrorist funding. Chertoff told the Associated Press on Oct. 25, 2001 that, ‘The lifeblood of terrorism is money, and if we cut the money we cut the blood supply.’ Chertoff served in the capacity of Assistant Attorney General of the criminal division at the Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003.

“They [The FBI] won’t share anything with us,’ said a Homeland Security official. ‘Then they go to the White House and they accuse us (ICE) of not sharing . . . If they can’t take it over, they want to kill it.’ The Treasury Department agencies participating in Operation Green Quest are the Customs Service (ICE), the Internal Revenue Service, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the Secret Service. If nothing else, the battle over Green Quest illustrates the bureaucratic tensions that still plague the war on terror. The creation of the Homeland Security Department was supposed to put an end to such turf fights. The new department took over a diverse assortment of federal agencies that had various responsibilities for combating terrorism, including the Customs Service (ICE), the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.S. Border Patrol.”

The FBI closely guards its files on Ghazzawi and has steadfastly refused to release even his name – except once in an apparent oversight while processing documents for release to Florida Bulldog. The documents were a copy of a letter and a list of phone numbers received by the FBI on July 23, 2002. Details about the letter and the list were blanked out, but the “title” of the file into which they were placed – Esam Ghazzawi – was not. When “big poppy” Esam Ghazzawi left the U.S. in 2001, Adel Ghazzawi apparently took over the family’s affairs in Sarasota. It was Adel, then 30 and an American citizen, who tried to get a Prestancia lien lifted so the house could be sold. The lien came after the series of brushes with Prestancia’s community association in Sarasota Fl, they all just slipped away right under the noses of the FBI. Saudi businessman Adel Ghazzawi appears on a leaked 2015 company information form for Reflections International. The company holds personal, commercial activities funds, the document says. The FBI had investigated his sister’s family for suspected ties to the 9/11 hijackers in Sarasota.

Adel Ghazzawi son of Esam Ghazzawi living in Prestanca home in Sarasota Fl during 1999 to early 2001. April 3rd 2002 FBI report indicates that at least two people linked to the al-Hijji house in Prestancia Sarasota Fl were taking flight lessons at Huffman Aviation with the 9/11 hijackers in the year 2000. Individuals tied to Huffman Flight School and 9/11 Hijackers by FBI linked to 4224 Escondito Circle Sarasota as family members appear to be Abdulaziz al-Hijji and Adel Ghazzawi son of Esam Ghazzawi. In the year 2000, Sarasota Saudi’s Abdulaziz al-Hijji then age 27 and his brother in law Adel Ghazzawi then age 30, were contemporaries of 9/11 Hijack Pilots Ziad Jarrah then age 25, Marwan Al-Shehhi then age 22, and Monamed Atta then age 32 who all appear to have taken Flight Training in Venice Fl at Hoffman Aviation at the same time, small world, eh? It appears that Adel Ghazzawi had been staying at 4224 Escondito Circle Sarasota, he also was linked to a address in nearby Longboat Key Fl. In the summer of 2001 Anoud al-Hijji’s 18-year-old brother, Salman Ghazzawi, also lived at the home in Prestancia. 

Interestingly the flying Imam Muneer Arafat at the Sarasota Mosque who has ties to al-Qaeda members before coming to Sarasota Fl in 2000 also had taken advanced flight lessons, small world, eh? Sarasota Fl was Terror Central from the summer of 2000 and into 2001. Imam Muneer Arafat was placed at the Sarasota Mosque (ISSB) in March 2000 by Musaed al-Jarrah, director of Islamic affairs at the Saudi embassy in Washington DC. Saudi businessman Adel Ghazzawi appears on a leaked 2015 company data form for Reflections International. The company holds personal, commercial activities funds, the document says.The FBI had investigated his sister’s family in Sarasota for suspected ties to the 9/11 hijackers. The 9/11 hijackers facilitator in San Diego CA during 2000 was Omar al-Bayoumi. Saudi spy Omar al-Bayoumi in 1993 was in Boca Raton Fl to study English, same place Al-Qaeda linked Imam Muneer Arafat shows up in 2003 at Mosque after being at Sarasota Fl Mosque for 3 years. Imam Muneer Arafat first shows up in Sarasota Fl in March 2000, just 4 months prior to Mohamed Atta and the other two 9/11 hijack pilots showing up in Sarasota County. Imam Muneer Arafats prior to coming to Sarasota was Al-Qaeda procurement agent Ziyad Khaleel's roommate who just happened to be linked to Omar al-Bayoumi, round and round we go, small world again, eh?

 

KSM denies that Saudis were chosen for the 9/11 plot to drive a wedge between the United States and Saudi Arabia, and stresses practical reasons for considering ethnic background when selecting operatives. He says that so many were Saudi because Saudis comprised the largest portion of the pool of recruits in the al Qaeda training camps. KSM estimates that in any given camp, 70 percent of the mujahideen were Saudi, 20 percent were Yemeni, and 10 percent were from elsewhere. Although Saudi and Yemeni trainees were most often willing to volunteer for suicide operations, prior to 9/11 it was easier for Saudi operatives to get into the United States. Like many other al Qaeda operatives, the Saudis who eventually became the muscle hijackers were targeted for recruitment outside Afghanistan- probably in Saudi Arabia itself. Al Qaeda recruiters, certain clerics, and-in a few cases-family members probably all played a role in spotting potential candidates. Several of the muscle hijackers seem to have been recruited through contacts at local universities and Imam's at Mosques.  

 

According to the head of one of the training camps in Afghanistan, some were chosen by unnamed Saudi sheikhs who had contacts with al Qaeda. Omari, for example, is believed to have been a student of a radical Saudi cleric named Sulayman al Alwan. His mosque, which is located in al Qassim Province, is known among more moderate clerics as a "terrorist factory." The province is at the very heart of the strict Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia. Saeed al Ghamdi and Mohand al Shehri also spent time in al Qassim, both breaking with their families. According to his father, Mohand al Shehri's frequent visits to this area resulted in his failing exams at his university in Riyadh. 

 

Saeed al Ghamdi transferred to a university in al Qassim, but he soon stopped talking to his family and dropped out of school without informing them. KSM claims that Bin Ladin could assess new trainees very quickly, in about ten minutes, and that many of the 9/11 hijackers were selected in this manner. Bin Ladin, assisted by Atef, personally chose all the future muscle hijackers for the planes operation, primarily between the summer of 2000 and April 2001. Upon choosing a trainee, Bin Ladin would ask him to swear loyalty for a suicide operation. After the selection and oath-swearing, the operative would be sent to KSM for training and the filming of a martyrdom video, a function KSM supervised as head of al Qaeda's media committee.  

 

As to targets on 9/11, Atta understood Bin Ladin's interest in striking the White House. Atta said he thought this target too difficult, but had tasked Hazmi and Hanjour to evaluate its feasibility and was awaiting their answer. Atta said that those two operatives had rented small aircraft and flown reconnaissance flights near the Pentagon. Atta explained that Hanjour was assigned to attack the Pentagon, Jarrah the Capitol, and that both Atta and Shehhi would hit the World Trade Center. If any pilot could not reach his intended target, he was to crash the plane. If Atta could not strike the World Trade Center, he planned to crash his aircraft directly into the streets of New York.

THE TIMES UK Sept 6, 2025. Revealed after 24 years, how UK was forced to free 9/11 ‘plotter’. Omar al-Bayoumi was arrested in Birmingham days after the 9/11 atrocity. But police were never given crucial evidence by the FBI. The declassified FBI Operation Encore materials portrayed Saudi spy Omar Bayoumi not as an innocent bystander but as someone deeply tied to Musaed al-Jarrah head of Saudi Religious Ministry (Imams) and possibly Saudi intelligence networks with Ziyad Khaleel in America. It references a 2017 assessment by the FBI’s Arabian Peninsula Squad, which had concluded Omar Bayoumi was a “co-optee” of the Saudi General Intelligence Presidency, its secret service, he was a spy. It found the assistance given to 9/11 hijackers Hazmi and Mihdhar was consistent with a co-ordinated terrorist support operation, rather than a series of chance encounters, and involved individuals with official connections to Saudi Arabia.

Bill Warner Private Investigator Sarasota 941-926-1926 at wbipi@verizon.net 

Murder of Shakeel Khan in Johnson City NY was Taliban Payback Assassination, Shakeel Khan was CIA asset in Pakistan, $5 Mill Reward for Info on Hitman

Newsflash for the media in Binghamton NY the murder of restaurant owner Shakeel Khan was not a botched robbery or a hate crime because he was a Muslim. The murder of Shakeel Khan owner of Halal Bites Rest on Riverside Dr Johnson City NY was a Taliban payback assassination on March 30, 2019 at  about 10pm. Shakeel Khan was a CIA asset in the SWAT Valley Pakistan where he "openly" politically worked against the Pakistan Taliban TPP now there is a $5 Mill Reward for info that leads to an arrest from the US Rewards for Justice program. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), including its factions active in the Swat region, has historically been involved in acts of terrorism against United States interests, including directing and facilitating a failed bombing attempt in Times Square New York City in 2010 ( Faisal Shahzad). Shakeel Khan was working against the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the SWAT valley region of Pakistan where he lived, he is a hero. Back on November 9th, 2020 I wrote, FBI now offering a $50,000 reward for info on who murdered Shakeel Khan outside his Halal Bites restaurant on Riverside Drive Johnson City NY on Saturday night March 30th, 2019 at about 10:00 pm. Shakeel Khan's funeral service was held in Brooklyn NY where his extended family lives and his body was brought back to his native country of Pakistan to be buried in the Swat Valley. Detectives are looking for at least one male suspect of unknown race who was wearing dark clothing and a dark mask over his face. Interestingly the FBI confirms what I first said that his murder was a "targeted hit", an assassination. FBI claims Shakeel Khan was killed execution style in their recent poster, no money was taken, not a robbery. Not often that the FBI gets involved with a local murder, the case must have some interstate or international connection with the assassins, and true to form I was right.

Leading up to the unsolved murder of Shakeel Khan on March 30th, 2019 at about 10pm as he was closing up his Halal Bites Rest on Riverside Dr Johnson City NY his assassins had a perfect spot to watch him and do surveillance from right across the street in a paved parking lot, under the interstate overpass, where no one would bother them. There is also quick access available out of the area on the nearby interstate highway. Note* the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist organization has a strong hold in the NY-NJ-CONN area with multiple arrests of wanna be terrorist bombers like Faisal Shahzad a Pakistani American who attempted the May 1st, 2010 Times Square car bombing, the TTP financed and backed him.

Back on Friday April 5th, 2019, NY STATE POLICE MAJOR CRIMES UNIT to assist Johnson City NY police detectives in unsolved murder of Muslim Rest. owner Shakeel Khan. JC cops are receiving help from New York State Police investigators in the effort to find the man or men who killed a village restaurant owner. Police Chief Brent Dodge said "a lot of manpower" is being employed in the effort to determine who shot Shakeel Khan as he closed his Riverside Drive business Saturday night. Dodge said the state police major crimes unit, along with its computer crimes and forensic investigators are providing assistance. Not very often that the owner of a restaurant is shot and killed while closing up and no money was taken, Shakeel Khan was shot multiple times to make sure he was dead, this was a hit. The crew that murdered Shakeel Khan in Johnson City NY on March 30th, 2019 were not locals, most like out of Elizabeth NJ.

It appears to me two or more people conspired to murder Shakeel Khan, rumor mill says hit-men from New Jersey. Most Likely a 3 man team, a driver, a spotter, and a shooter. There had to be surveillance of the restaurant by the assassins, inside and out, they would have watched him close up and know his car in the parking lot in several dry runs. I would estimate someone drove the masked man dressed all in black to the hit, waited and provided a quick get away for the shooter once Khan was down, this was planned. Mr Khan came to the U.S. specifically Brooklyn, New York in 2002 or 2003 (after 9/11 attack) depends n who you believe, from the Swat region in present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and moved to Johnson City Broome County NY in 2017, two years later he was murdered in 2019. Murdered Shakell Khan is from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, which has faced an intense, ongoing insurgency from the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and allied militant groups, making the province a focal point of terrorism in Pakistan. Murdered Shakeel Khan appears to have been involved in politics in his home region with the ANP that opposed the Taliban TPP. This TPP Taliban conflict, rooted in the border region with Afghanistan, has resulted in widespread violence, targeting politicians (Khan family - ANP) security forces and civilians, with complex ties to Taliban factions.

The Rewards for Justice program does not offer $5 million dollar rewards for info on murders of ordinary citizens, Shakeel Khan was a CIA asset in Pakistan. I have been involved with the US Rewards for Justice program in Florida, I know how it works and who it rewards and why. Most very likely Shakeel Khan had been or was a paid and protected Federal Confidential Informant (CI) of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Pakistan prior to the 9/11/2001 terror attacks, he shows up in Brooklyn NY in 2002 or 2003, depends on who you believe. 

On March 23, 2023 The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program, which is administered by the US Diplomatic Security Service, is offering a reward of up to $5 million for certain information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual, who committed, attempted or conspired to commit, or aided or abetted in the commission of the murder of Shakeel Khan, this generally never happens for ordinary citizens of the USA, unless they link to major cases in the middle east like Shakeel Khan so obviously did as a CIA asset in the SWAT Valley Pakistan, Taliban country when Shakeel Khan lived there. This guy was a hero who worked for US intelligence while living in Pakistan,

Shakeel Khan, a lawful permanent resident of the United States, was murdered outside his place of employment in Johnson City, New York on March 30, 2019 at around 10pm. Shakeel Khan, a native of the Swat region in Pakistan (Taliban country), was openly involved in political activities opposing the terrorist organization Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) (the Taliban) in that country. No one on their own would go up against the Taliban in the SWAT Valley their home base like Shakeel Khan did unless you had CIA backing. Shakeel Khan was a CIA asset, he was a hero! Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is a conglomerate of violent insurgent groups operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan that seek to overthrow the state of Pakistan. Taliban Pakistan (TTP)  has been based in the SWAT Region of Pakistan for decades. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is a conglomerate of around 40 tribal and non-tribal Pakistani militant groups fighting against the state of Pakistan and the U.S.-led coalition forces. Pakistan Taliban TTP had previously fought in Afghanistan alongside with both the Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda, and the Pakistan TTP group has maintained close ties to both organizations since, and Shakeel Khan went up against them in the SWAT Valley Pakistan!

THE TIMES OF INDIA NEWS....Who was Shakeel Khan Johnson City NY? Pakistani-American restaurant owner shot in 2019, reward raised to $5 million for information on suspect. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/who-was-shakeel-khan-pakistani-american-restaurant-owner-shot-in-2019-reward-raised-to-5-million-for-information-on-suspect/amp_articleshow/130005040.cms

The Swat region of Pakistan was under effective control of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) from roughly 2000 to 2009. During this time, militants led by Maulana Fazlullah enforced a strict interpretation of Sharia law, targeting girls' schools, banning media, and performing public executions in what residents termed "Khooni Chowk". The retaking of Green Chowk Pakistan in the SWAT Valley could have serious symbolic value. Residents nicknamed it "khooni chowk" or "bloody intersection" because the militants would leave their victims' bodies there some decapitated, some killed in other brutal fashions. The dead often were left hanging from trees. Some had notes attached that accused the victims of spying and told local residents not to move the bodies until specified times. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force are investigating the murder of Shakeel Khan, who was a Pakistani native fo the Swat Valley Pakistan. In November 2020, the FBI issued a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the murder. 

Islamabad July 2024— A United Nations (UN) report says the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an alliance of extremist groups, is “the largest terrorist group” in Afghanistan and receives growing support from that country’s Taliban rulers to conduct cross-border attacks in Pakistan. “TTP continues to operate at a significant scale in Afghanistan and to conduct terrorist operations into Pakistan from there, often utilizing Afghans,” the report read. It noted that the globally designated terrorist group, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, is operating in Afghanistan with an estimated strength of 6,000-6,500 fighters. The U.N. report said regional al-Qaida operatives in Afghanistan, who have long-term ties to the Taliban, are assisting TTP in conducting high-profile terrorist activities inside Pakistan. TPP media boss Qari Mehsud indicated in a video recorded that the TTP would make cities in the United States a "main target" in response to U.S. drone attacks on Packi TTP leaders. Pakistan TTP's media arm is the Umar Media website *Murdered Shakeel Khan in Johnson City NY had been an vocal political opponent of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan TPP when he lived in the Swat Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. Despite Peace, Anti-Taliban Activists, the Khan family, Are Targeted In Pakistan's Swat Valley. In 2014, years after a major military operation freed Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley from Taliban control, local peace activists live in fear of bombs and bullets. Zahid Khan, a senior leader of the anti-Taliban tribal council, or Swat Qaumi Jirga, says that peace has returned to Swat since the 2009 campaign, but targeted killings of local Khan elders, political workers and peace activists continue. Khan has survived three assassination attempts for standing up to the hardline militants. Noor Wali Mehsud also known by his nom de guerre Abu Mansur Asim, is a Pakistani militant and internationally designated terrorist who served as the fourth emir of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) since 2018. On June 22nd 2018, Mehsud was named the emir of the TTP after the former TPP Pemir, Mullah Fazlullah, was killed in a US drone strike in Kunar, Afghanistan. Cent-Com in Tampa Fl is targeting members of the Pakistan Taliban TPP in Khyber Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Sunday March 15, 2026, Security forces killed five terrorists during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat on Sunday, according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). The Pakistan military’s media affairs wing said in a statement that the IBO was conducted on the reported presence of “khawarij belonging to Indian proxy, Fitna al Khawarij”. Fitna al Khawarij is a term that the state uses for banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). One militant group in Khyber, Lashkar-i-Islam (LI), has morphed from a vigilante crime fighting organization into a terrorist group allied with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

Murdered restaurant owner Shakell Khan in Johnson City NY (March 2019) could have been a influential member of the ANP political party when he lived in the Swat Valley Pakistan and 'openly' politically opposed the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The Awami National Party (ANP) is a secular, Pashtun-nationalist party that has historically held a significant, often embattled presence in Swat, Khyber Pakistan. It spearheaded opposition to the Taliban insurgency (2007-2009) but faced severe militant backlash, resulting in numerous targeted assassinations of its leaders, such as the 2025 attack on Mumtaz Ali Khan. Mumtaz Ali Khan, a senior Awami National Party (ANP) leader which controls the provincial government in Swat, Pakistan survived a remote-controlled bomb attack on his vehicle in Matta on November 12, 2025. He is the son of the late ANP leader Muzaffar Ali Khan, who was killed in a 2011 grenade attack. The attack was attributed to militants, with a spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Swat chapter, Omar Hassan Ahrabi, later claiming responsibility. The Khan family has faced persistent targeting by Taliban TPP militants in Pakistan, which aim to silence secular resistance through fear and intimidation.

In 2008 Muzaffar Ali Khan's brother, Mukhtiar Ali Khan, and his son, Aftab Ali Khan, were killed by Taliban militants. Zahid Khan, the head of the Swat Qaumi Jirga [council] and an outspoken opponent of the Taliban, was also one of the victims of the bloody Taliban campaign. Khan was shot in the head on August 4, 2012 while returning from evening prayers. Was Shakeel Khan's murder in Johnson City NY linked to all of this, he was there, and he did politically oppose the Taliban in the Swat Valley of Pakistan? Was Shakeel Khan ANP?

Times Square Bomb Plot: Faisal Shahzad a Pakistani American who attempted the May 1st, 2010 Times Square car bombing, was arrested after he had boarded Emirates Flight 202 to Dubai UAE. On June 21, 2010, in Federal District Court in Manhattan Faisal Shahzad confessed to 10 counts arising from the bombing attempt. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) financed and backed Faisal Shahzad. In upstate NY, Shakeel Khan was murdered in Johnson City NY in 2019, he was a native of the Swat region in Pakistan (Taliban country). Shakeel Khan was openly involved in political activities opposing the terrorist organization Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The terrorist organization Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) sponsored Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American who lived in Connecticut, to undertake an attack in New York City’s Times Square on May 1, 2010. 

In July 2010, video footage emerged of Faisal Shahzad embracing Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Pakistan’s interior minister, Rehman Malik, told reporters that Faisla Shahzad “visited Pakistan seven times and he met Hakimullah Mehsud and also met other leaders of the TTP, those so-called leaders of the Taliban.” I do not think the media in Johnson City -Binghamton - Broome County NY has any idea how big a deal the assassination of Shakeel Khan is! The TTP operates along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and has historically maintained, through its alliance with Al-Qaeda, an interest in targeting U.S. interests. Intelligence has sometimes highlighted connections between TTP militants in the region and individuals in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area, often involving, "homegrown" radicals. In December 2009, Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad received explosives training in Waziristan, Pakistan, from explosive trainers affiliated with Tehrik-e-Taliban (TPP), a militant extremist group based in Pakistan. On Feb. 25, 2010, Shahzad received approximately $5,000 in cash in Massachusetts sent from a co-conspirator (CC-1) in Pakistan whom Shahzad understood worked for Tehrik-e-Taliban (TPP). Approximately six weeks later, on April 10, 2010, Shahzad received an additional $7,000 in cash in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., which was also sent at CC-1's direction.

The reward offer from RFJ is in addition to the FBI’s reward offer and seeks information that would assist the FBI in identifying those responsible for Khan’s murder. More information about this reward offer is located on the Rewards for Justice website at www.rewardsforjustice.net. Anyone with information on those responsible for the murder of Shakeel Khan should contact Rewards for Justice via Signal, Telegram, or WhatsApp at +1-202-702-7843. All information will be kept strictly confidential.

I have knowledge of how the US State Dept Rewards for Justice program works. I have known only one other case where a man who was a legal resident of America and got involved with a CIA terrorist investigation in the Middle East and ended up dead or kidnapped had a $5 Million Dollar Reward offered for information on how he was kidnapped, or how he was killed, or who killed him. Shakeel Khan in Johnson City NY is one of the men, the other man is former FBI agent and private investigator Robert "Bob" Levinson from Florida who disappeared while in Iran investigating a cigarette smuggling case, most likely at the request of the CIA. In March 2020, U.S. government officials and his family announced the conclusion that Robert "Bob" Levinson most likely died while in Iranian custody. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5 Million Dollars for information leading to the location, recovery, and return of retired FBI agent Robert "Bob" Levinson, who disappeared in Kish Island, Iran, on March 9, 2007. In addition, the U.S. Department of State's Rewards for Justice program offers up to $20 million, bringing the potential total to $25 million for information on Robert "Bob" Levinson's case.


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Serial Killers Who Targeted Women in Sarasota Fl Like William Devonshire, Delmer Smith and John Waterman Seemed to Flourish in Sarasota Fl.

The FBI defines serial murder as the unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender(s) in separate events, typically with a "cooling-off" period between murders. This definition emphasizes separate, distinct events rather than a specific number of victims. The worst of the worst lived and walked amongst us in Sarasota Fl. Serial Killers William Devonshire and Delmer Smith move to Sarasota & Bradenton Fl after release from out of state prisons, the worst of the worst, serial rapist and murderer Delmer Smith and serial killer William Devonshire had no known connections to Sarasota and Bradenton Fl and yet within days of their respective release from prison in Michigan and Delaware these two monsters show up in Florida. DELMER SMITH DEATH ROW PHOTO, TIME FOR A DIRT NAP. TRIAL CONVICTION 08/03/2009 1ST DEGREE MURDER/PREMEDITATED 05/28/2013 MANATEE COUNTY FL DEATH SENTENCE. Serial Killer Delmer Smith moved to Bradenton Fl in September 2008 to hook up with older woman prison pen pal who he supposedly married. Then all Hell Broke Loose in Paradise thanks to the FBI who had not recorded Smith's DNA in CODIS after he was released from prison. Convicted Serial Sexual Killer Delmer Smith Transferred From State Prison to Sarasota County Jail to Stand Trial For Murder. Friday, February 23, 2018 The State Attorney’s Office in Sarasota Fl is finally charging ‘Monster’ Delmer Smith with the April 5th, 2009 rape and murder of Georgann Smith on Jo Ann Drive in Sarasota Fl.

WTSP CBS TV June 15, 2019, SARASOTA, Fla. — Time is running out for Delmer Smith III. He's been on death row for more than five years for the heinous murder of Kathleen Briles in her Terra Ceia home in 2009. Marjorie Almeter lost her sister Georgann Smith the same year Briles was killed, but Almeter didn't get the satisfaction of a conviction at the same time. Delmer Smith III was responsible for a string of violent home invasions in Sarasota and Manatee counties targeting women home alone that caused fear and panic for the people who lived there. “He pummeled these women into the ground,” Bill Warner, a private investigator who’s followed the case since 2009, explained. “He beat them with bricks, baseball bats, whatever he could get his hand on. It was over-the-top violent.” Bill Warner became interested in the case because the attacks happened near his office and home. “It was going nowhere,” he explained. “Nobody knew who this guy was.” Then, the big break came. Smith was first convicted for the home invasions, then the murder of Kathleen Briles. Finally, in 2017, new DNA evidence connected the man already on death row to Georgann's murder. A jury found him guilty.

Serial Killer William Devonshire Attacking Women in Sarasota Since Nov 2013 Arrival From Newark DE On Parole for Murder in 2003. This 6' 4" tall, 220 pound monster has been roaming amongst us in downtown Sarasota since Nov 2013, his current location Sarasota County jail, recently terminated. Ex-con William J. Devonshire, DOB 9/23/1969, decided this area was best for him after his parole for murder in Wilmington DE, lucky us. William J. Devonshire had arrests in New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Maryland, Wilmington Delaware (Mid Atlantic trucking routes) and Sarasota Florida, I get the impression William Devonshire worked as a long haul trucker. I-95 runs directly through Wilmington Delaware, a transportation hub, where William Devonshire had lived. William Devonshire is a convicted murderer, as a result of an incident which occurred on April 3, 2003 in the State of Delaware. Serial Killers like William Devonshire in Sarasota go after marginalized individuals particularly prostitutes, drug addicts and the homeless relatively easy marks as they tend to lose touch with family and friends and might have a history of disappearing for extended periods of time. There is no doubt in my mind that William "Bill" Devonshire killed the two homeless women along the north Tamiami Trl, in Feb and March of 2022, that makes him a 
Bona Fide serial killer along with his prior murder conviction in Delaware. How many other bodies are on this monster is unknown who died in Sarasota County jail, good riddance to bad rubbish.

Sarasota Psycho Killer John Waterman sent to Sex Offender Halfway Housing in Lake Shore Village Trailer Park Orlando Fl after release August 1st 2011. The outrageous release of John Waterman for the 1991 Rape and Torture Murder of Jackie Galloway. John Waterman only did 16 years in prison and then sent to “Treatment Center for Rapists” in Arcadia Fl. John Waterman, 54, raped, tortured and killed a Sarasota County woman and then raped and tortured, with a knife, a 2nd woman in the Hudson Bayou section of Sarasota Fl. JOHN BENSON WATERMAN is now free to roam, current verified address is Orlando Fl. JOHN BENSON WATERMAN, DOB: 05/06/1966. Registered sex offender and murderer John Waterman is now mobile. Registered Sexual Predator and Murderer John Waterman purchased a black 2009 Ford pickup truck in Orlando. On November 11, 2021 John Waterman registered the 2009 black Ford pickup and then re-registerd the truck on May 20, 2022. John Waterman appears to have purchased the truck and is making payments to ORANGE SPORTS CENTER INC Orlando Fl, sort of a buy here, pay here, used car lot.

Vehicle Make	Vehicle Type	Vehicle Color	Vehicle Year	Vehicle Body	Tag Number
FORD	AUTO	BLACK	2009	UTILITY	QBFN26

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