In the past several months, we have been reporting on the case of Mohammed Hannoun, a Jordanian-Palestinian resident of Genoa, Italy, who runs a "charitable" organization called Associazione Benefica di Solidarietà con il Popolo Palestinese (Charitable Association in Solidarity with the Palestinian People-Abspp). Hannoun has been arrested in a massive investigation and is charged with sending donations to his associates in Hamas, specifically designated for the children of Hamas terrorists who have died in battle or in conducting suicide terror attacks against Israeli civilians.
Giulia Sorrentino, investigative reporter for Il Giornale, has written another piece outlining the case against Hammoun and others.
I should note here that Sorrentino, her editor, Tomasso Cerno, and the newspaper itself are under considerable threat from Islamists due to their continuous coverage of cases like this, as well as issues of migrant crime and clandestine mosques in Italy.
The article below is translated by Fousesquawk.
Prosecutors dismantle the charity cause. The money? To the children of the terrorists.
The wiretap on the flow of money: "This file will cost us 25 years in jail"
-Giulia Sorrentino
20 June, 2026 at 12:00
Evidently, we do not imagine the Palestinian children in the same way. Or better, we, who think of those who are suffering innocently in Gaza, do not imagine them in the same way as Mohammad Hannoun. He who, thanks to the Palestinian cause, has managed to have a name and fame, has had the extraordinary ability to promote the campaign in the name, "Hot meals project" or "food parcels", which, however, according to the detailed documentation provided by the indictment, was allegedly destined to 21 orphans of "shahid", the children of 9 "martyrs of war," who are reportedly the soldiers of the Al Qassam Brigade, the military wrong of Hamas. This involves material discovered from the analyses of some of the devices that were seized, in which the association's accounts were also registered.
And for this very reason, they evidently attempted to erase the traces. Could they not have known? No, otherwise, they would not have discussed and worried about certain contents on several occasions.
It is Raed Dawoud who, during a conversation with Elasaly (those two are the principal managers of the Milan office), addresses the problem if law enforcement were to seize their telephones. Due to this, emerges the desire of the accused to erase the data considered dangerous and to format the devices.
Because of this, Dawoud, referring to the counts involving Osama Alisawi, says: "This is the most dangerous file there is! Because this is the one that comes from down there... this will cause us.....25 years in jail."
They had an Excel file labeled "2021 martyrs," and the names were discovered on the same site of the Brigades, where the identifying data and date of death were indicated.
But there is more because a folder was labeled, "Usama 2025" referring to the face of Hamas, Osama Alisawi, and it is a constantly updated account of the money sent from Abspp and received by him that details the amount in dollars or local currency. The mechanism was as follows: The Abspp issued a document attesting to the sending of money to the designated charity to financially support "the specifically identified orphans."
Then Osama Alisawi reported it on the Excel file, saved on the server under the name "Osama 2025", how much he received from Abspp, reporting the name of the recipient charity, and at that point, the charity confirmed the receipt of the amount sent by Abspp, issuing a kind of receipt.
Aside from the money laundering, the investigators are able to reconstruct another aspect far from secondary: They have also outlined, beginning in the year 2000, the well-established relations of Hannoun outside of Italy. As the judge writes, "the investigations conducted prove the existence of a network of relationships that link Hannoun and other subjects who operate within the organizations dedicated to pro-Palestinian activity abroad."
In 2003, Hannoun had direct relations with people in Germany, where the Al Aqsa Foundation of Aachen then operated. On August 5, 2002, it was declared illegal by a decree by the German Interior Minister due to its relations with Hamas in the financial support of families of terrorists who had carried out suicide attacks. Hannoun had maintained relations with members of the association subsequent to the measure by the German authorities, as emerged from additional conversations.
Here were also acquaintances back in 2001 with the Austrian representative, with Dutch representatives, and with Belgium rather than France.
It is, indeed, noteworthy that the current investigations have confirmed the well-established relations between him and his closest collaborators in Italy and persons certainly linked to Hamas.
Money and contacts that lead to only one place: Gaza.
The Guardian, campus newspaper of the University of California at San Diego, is one of countless campus newspapers that make little if any pretense of being fair and even-handed when it comes to sensitive issues. The rule in campus journalism is to closely follow the rules of political correctness.
For years, I have been reading campus newspapers online as to how they report the Israel-Palestinian conflict and issues of pro-Palestinian activism, as well as campus anti-Semitism. What I have found is that while some will give an occasional op-ed to a conservative or pro-Israel student, the reporting and the editorial writing are overwhelmingly anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-Israel, and pro-Palestinian. Given the overall culture dominating academia today, this is hardly surprising.
Now, several news sources are reporting complaints of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel bias on the part of the Guardian. The article linked here in the Jewish news site, Algemeiner, is written by a UCSD student, Ellia Torkian, who uses statistical arguments, specific examples, and personal experiences dealing with the Guardian, as well as those of another student-writer, identified as JS, who had difficulty getting an innocuous article about the campus Hillel chapter's work helping Jewish students deal with anti-Semitism past the editors before eventually giving up.
As of this writing, I have not found any mention of this controversy in the current edition of the Guardian.
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In my recently published memoirs ("My years in DEA and beyond: The drug war, anti-Semitism, and Islamist extremism"), I described an event that occurred in the late 1960s when I was a US military policeman stationed in Germany. While spending a month TDY in the US Army Field Training area at Grafenwoehr, I was assigned to act as an investigator at the MP station, basically doing interviews and following other leads for the Criminal Investigation Division (CID). At that time, I was paired with one of the MPs regularly stationed at Grafenwöhr, whose name I don't recall. This was in December 1967.
During the evening of December 17, two American soldiers were spending the evening drinking in the nearby town of Amberg. They hailed a taxi, and while being driven by Walter Datzko, a 32-year-old taxi driver, one of the soldiers, Thomas Stanton Overko, 23, of New York State, pulled a gun and shot the driver to death with two bullets in the back of the head. The motive was apparently robbery. The other GI, Larry Allen Miller,19, of Junction City, Kansas, tried to drive the taxi away, but an automatic alarm in the vehicle prevented that. Overko made his escape on foot while Miller was shortly arrested by German police wandering not far from the cab. Miller identified Overko as the shooter, and the German and American military police began a massive search for Overko.
Early the next morning, Overko made his way to the Grafenwoehr caserne weather station, where he called the MPs and told them where he was. The MPs, including my assigned partner, responded to the location, arrested Overko and seized the murder weapon.
So it was that around 8 am, that same morning, I reported for duty at the MP station and saw my partner and other MPs in the holding cell with Overko. He was being administered a paraffin test for gunpowder residue. I also recall the CID officer at the station arriving and instructing the MPs not to advise Overko of his rights or ask him any questions, that he would do that personally.
Recently, I was going through old pictures from those days in Germany, and I came across an article I had cut out from the Overseas Weekly* dated December 24-31, 1967, describing the killing and providing much more detail than I had written in the above book (in which I had incorrectly described the incident as happening in 1968.)
Heretofore, I had never followed up on the story of the judicial disposition of the case or whatever had happened to Overko and Miller. Turning to the Internet, I was able to determine that the two had both been convicted in a German court and sentenced to life imprisonment.
But what became of them?
I was able to determine that Overko died in Brooklyn, NY in 1999.
Here is Overko's entry from the Overko Family History page:
OVERKO, THOMAS STANTON, also known as THOMAS S OVERKO, was born 9 August 1944, is listed with the following 3 birthplaces: BEACON, New York; BUFFALO, New York; BROOKLYN, New York, son of ALEXANDER M (father) and JANE ANUSZKIEWICZ, was assigned Social Security number 072-34-3709 (indicating New York) based on interview documentation establishing he was a U.S. citizen or alien allowed to work, with evidence other than a birth record submitted, is listed as a U.S. citizen, and died 28 June 1999, while residing in Zip Code 11235-6204.
Check the Source file [free] and Archives.com for THOMAS STANTON OVERKO. [$]
Miller proved to be a tougher nut to track down with his common name. No longer privy to law enforcement criminal records, I was forced to resort to open-source documents, and, as you may imagine, many of those sources involve subscription fees. It appears certain that both were released by the Germans at some point, but when?
I am still trying to determine when Overko and Miller were released and what ensued in their lives. I will update this story as more information becomes available.
*The Overseas Weekly was an English-language newspaper out of Frankfurt published by former US servicemen who had remained in Germany after discharge. Their focus was on sensational stories like these involving GIs and various scandals on the US military posts. I even subscribed to it for a while after returning stateside and civilian life. Opened in 1950, it closed down in 1975.
For years now, we have learned about sexual grooming gangs operating in the UK. Gangs of grown and middle-aged men, overwhelmingly Pakistani, who have preyed on vulnerable British girls, runaways, and drug addicts. The expression grooming refers to the practice of these men to lure these girls into even more vulnerable positions, largely through drugs, and to turn them into virtual sex slaves for themselves and their friends. To make it even more disgusting, British authorities in some areas turned a blind eye for years out of fear of being called racist if they went after these predators.
Now, it appears that the problem has surfaced in Germany, more specifically in Nuremberg, where a gang of men described as Syrian, North Africans, and Pakistani have preyed on young German girls, getting them addicted to drugs and turning them into prostitutes. Not surprisingly, much of this activity is taking place near the Central Train Station. Like most large German cities, the central train stations at night become a hangout for all kinds of low-lifes.
When I was a young Army MP just outside Nuremberg in the 1960s, it was common to see many middle-aged German men drunk in and around the station. I always speculated that they were former Wehrmacht soldiers, burned out with guilt over atrocities some of them committed in the war.
Now the problem is mostly migrants who should never have been let into Germany in the first place except for the policies of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, who let in millions of military-age men during the Syrian civil war. And they are still there.
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The article below from the conservative German website, Junge Freiheit, is translated by Fousesquawk.
Forced into prostitution with drugs? Migrants allegedly have abused girls
Germany, 22 May 2026
In Nuremberg, a migrant gang has allegedly systematically hooked girls on drugs and prostituted them. The police are investigating with a special squad. The youngest victim is reportedly 13 years old.
Nuremberg- The police have initiated an investigation into a group of criminal migrants who have allegedly exploited several girls. The police have established a special squad named "Kajal" to investigate the group. "There is suspicion that, in this context, sexual attacks and rapes have also occurred," said the spokesman for the Middle Franconia police headquarters, Andreas Gramlich, to the Nürnberger Nachrichten. The youngest victim of the migrant gang, made up of men from Syria, North Africa, and Pakistan, is reportedly 13 years old.
The authorities believe that the suspects repeatedly approached girls on Nelson Mandela Square near the Nuremberg Central Train Station with gifts like clothing and cosmetics, and later with hard drugs like Chrystal Meth to get them addicted. When the girls became addicted to the drugs, they reportedly now could only get them through sexual traffic. As the Nürnberger Nachrichten reported, the police now reportedly have identified at least 10 suspects. A 23-year-old is reportedly already in custody, 2 men are on the run, and another 18-year-old is under investigation.
Youth Welfare Office is concerned over the extent of drugs and prostitution
As of now, the police see no clear, identifiable group structure but are sure that a connection exists between the alleged persons involved. Police spokesman Gramlich describes the sequence of events and stressed that the victims apparently "went voluntarily into the apartments with them", but that there was no recognizable organized structure on the perpetrators' side. He promised that his authorities would follow the case "thoroughly". The goal is "to shed light on the entire dark picture." They currently believe that Nelson Mandela Square served as the meeting place.
The Nuremberg Youth Welfare Office spoke of the cases as representing "a new dimension." Problems at large train stations are not unique to Nuremberg, stressed the deputy chief of the Youth Welfare Office, Frank Schmidt. But it is new that young girls are so openly prostituting themselves for drugs. The city has a shortage of care for young people using risky drugs. The waiting lists are too long, the services are too few," Schmidt laments.
Two of the girls involved have now been placed in establishments outside of Bavaria. Nelson Mandela Square in Nuremberg and the neighboring Celtis park have been considered for years as places with rampant drug criminality.
Hat tip to The College Fix
Just when you thought Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a national network of university chapters that has wreaked havoc on most every campus where it exists, could get any lower, we get this from Colorado University. The campus chapter of SJP has demanded the release of a convicted Egyptian terrorist, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who carried out a firebombing that killed one person and injured several others at an event last year dedicated to the release of hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023. You can read the details from The College Fix here.
Is there a more despicable organization in the US today than SJP, which was co-founded by University of California at Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian, who has made anti-Semitic statements publicly ever since he washed up on our shores as a student at San Francisco State University? With chapters on about 150 campuses across the country, this group has gone far beyond advocating for the Palestinian cause and condemning Israel (which are within their rights). It engages in tactics of disruption, threats, bullying, and violence against those who defend Israel. It defends Hamas, a terrorist organization, and condones the horrors of October 7, 2023. And now, this bunch in Colorado is demanding the release of Soliman. Free speech? Yes. Despicable? Absolutely.
When will universities all over the nation stand as one and ban this bunch permanently? When will our Justice Department treat SJP as it is in my opinion, a criminal organization? As to the former question, I don't have a lot of faith in our universities to take such action. All I see are temporary suspensions, which are cosmetic and insufficient. (According to the linked article, SJP is "unrecognized" at CU.) And yet, universities have every right not to allow disruptive groups that advocate hate and violence on their campuses. Would any university allow a KKK chapter on its campus? No.
As to the latter, I have considerably more faith that the current Justice Department, under Trump, is looking at this very possibility, maybe under our RICO statutes. That was almost certainly not the case under Biden, but it would not shock me if something appropriate might occur under this administration.
*Update (June 12, 2026)
To its credit, the University of Colorado has issued a statement condemning SJP's demand. It is posted in the campus newspaper, CU Boulder Today. It was posted on June 2, and my bad for not having found it earlier.
The article can be accessed here.
It goes without saying that I am in total agreement with the arguments in the article. Even before the encampment saga at UCLA, for years, that institution has had a documented history of ignoring the safety concerns of Jewish students in the face of insults, intimidation, and threats coming from the pro-Palestinian mobs on campuses, aided and abetted by far too many faculty members in departments like the Center for Near Eastern Studies. The worst excesses, at least in my opinion, occurred under the previous chancellor, Gene Block, who served from August 2007 to July 2024.
I hope this lawsuit is successful.
The US Department of Justice has announced the indictments in the Eastern District of Michigan of 8 people associated with the University of Michigan for conspiracies to engage in a campaign of threats, intimidation, and violence against university officials, the Jewish Federation of Detroit, and other entities, on or off campus in support of the Palestinian cause.
Those indicted by a federal grand jury are:
Zainab Aliasgar Hakim (Canton, Michigan) (age 23), Amatullah Aliasgar Hakim (Ann Arbor, Michigan) (age 21), Paige Elizabeth Feyock (Ann Arbor, Michigan) (age 26), Ahmet Kerem Korkaya (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (age 28), Jonathan Hongru Zou (Ann Arbor, Michigan) (age 22), Alexander Matthew Sepulveda (Chicago, Illinois) (age 23), Mariam Muhammed Odeh (Dearborn, Michigan) (age 24), and Colin Hunter Weger (Ann Arbor, Michigan) (age 24).
The DOJ announcement can be read here.
Here is additional detail from Michigan Advance.
Here is how the University of Michigan campus newspaper, The Michigan Daily, is reporting the news.This article first appeared in New English Review. It was written on June 10, the day after the conviction and sentencing.
Yesterday’s conviction of 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony and
his sentencing to 35 years in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf
have opened up old wounds in our troubled black-white relationships. Once
again, the racial divide in our society has been exposed; two groups of people perceive
the same set of facts differently. Different perceptions based on differences
in life experience and environment.
What we know is this: In April 2025, Anthony and Metcalf
crossed paths at a school track meet in Frisco, Texas, not far from Dallas. Separate
schools were in separate tents on a rainy day, and Anthony wound up in a tent
assigned to Metcalf’s school. When he was repeatedly asked to leave, an
argument between the two escalated, with Anthony acting in a belligerent
manner, according to multiple witnesses' testimony.
It appears at one point that Metcalf gave Anthony some sort
of shove, the force of which is open to question. At this point, Anthony pulled
out a knife and stabbed Metcalf in the heart, killing him. Anthony, who was charged
(and convicted) of first-degree murder, claimed he was acting in self-defense.
Since Anthony was black and Metcalf white, the case quickly degenerated into a
racial issue, which played out outside the courthouse during and immediately
after the trial when the verdict was announced.
A few thoughts: We all know that kids in high school
sometimes get into fights for no good reason. The important legal point is
this: If a person pushes you or even hits you with his fist, that does not
justify pulling a knife and responding with deadly force. Anthony’s claim of
self- defense does not hold water since he could not reasonably show that he
was in fear of his life.
At the same time, Anthony’s defenders are invoking the
Treyvon Martin case. Martin, who was 17 at the time, was killed in an incident
with George Zimmerman, a 28-year- old neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford,
Florida in 2012. Here again, Martin was black while Zimmerman was white (and
partially Hispanic). Zimmerman was charged with killing Martin during a
physical struggle in which Zimmerman pulled out his gun and shot Martin to
death. Zimmerman was acquitted when a jury decided that he truly was in danger
of losing his life since Martin was repeatedly banging his head into the
pavement. Nevertheless, many in the black community saw it as another example
of “white justice”, hearkening back to a different era in the South when white
juries would routinely acquit whites charged with murdering blacks while
convicting blacks charged with murdering whites. (In my opinion, the acquittal
of Zimmerman was the only reasonable outcome. Likewise, I believe that
Anthony’s conviction was the proper verdict.)
In addition, it has been pointed out that the Anthony jury
was all-white. It is my understanding that three prospective black jurors were
excused from the jury pool because they indicated they would have a hard time
convicting Anthony in this case. Three other blacks were successfully
challenged by the prosecution, largely due to their advanced academic
background. One should keep in mind that in Washington DC and certain other
judicial districts, white defendants can expect to be judged by predominantly
black juries. Of course, we all remember the OJ Simpson trial, which should
have been tried in Santa Monica rather than downtown Los Angeles.
Unfortunately, the District Attorney, Gil Garcetti, was beseeched by leading
black activists in Los Angeles to hold the trial downtown in the interest of a
more diverse jury pool. Garcetti agreed, and a jury consisting of 9 blacks took
only a couple of hours of deliberation to acquit Simpson of a double murder he
most certainly committed. Previously, in my DEA career, I knew several
prosecutors who welcomed black jurors, who had enough life experience and
common sense to know when a defendant was guilty-even if he or she was black.
Finally, the videos coming from outside the Texas courthouse
in the Anthony trial are appalling. Especially troubling was the image of a middle-aged
black man, obviously old enough to know better, repeatedly calling a white man
a “motherf---ing cracker” while challenging him to a fight. In addition, there were
repeated scenes of whites and blacks arguing face to face while police tried to
maintain order. Another sad reminder that we still have a way to go in
achieving a final and lasting reconciliation.
I still hold to the belief that those people outside the
Texas courthouse are not representative of the average black Americans, who are
law-abiding and realize that it is precisely their own communities that suffer
the most from crime and violence at the hands of people like Karmelo Anthony.
In this case, Anthony’s victim was white. Most likely, his next victim would
have been black.
Hat tip Gates of Vienna and Remix News (Hungary)
A Moroccan man in his 30s has been charged with sexual assault after he allegedly sexually attacked a 17-year-old girl with autism in a restaurant restroom. The incident reportedly occurred on May 1 when the victim was eating in a pizza restaurant with her family in the town of Denia, a town on the east coast of Spain in Alicante Province. They were approached by the accused, who struck up a conversation with them. At one point, the alleged victim went to the restroom. She was reportedly followed to the restroom by the man, who attacked her as she was leaving. He then reportedly raped the victim anally. He has since been identified and arrested.
The below article from Informacion (Spain) is translated by Fousesquawk.
Arrested for sexual assault on a minor with autism in the restroom of a pizzeria in Denia.
The man arrested by police was identified by the victim, who was with her family eating in the restaurant when she was assaulted in the bathroom.
-P. Cerrado
May 20, 2026 at 18:03
The National Police have arrested a 36-year-old man of Moroccan origin in Denia, accused of having sexually attacked a 17-year-old minor with autism in the rest room of a kebab pizzeria in Denia, according to what this daily has confirmed from sources close to the case.
The incident occurred on the afternoon of last May 1 in a pizzeria in Denia, but the minor said nothing to her family until they arrived at their residence located in another municipality of Marina Alta. The 17-year-old minor went with her parents to a Civil Guard station to file a complaint for sexual assault with penetration. She claimed that it was not a consensual relationship and that she froze after telling him no and trying to push him away.
According to the complaint, the minor was with her family in the establishment when they were approached by a man in his 30s, who began a conversation with them. He told them that he was of Belgian nationality but had spent 10 years living in Denia. The man gained their confidence and even gave them his phone number.
At a certain moment, the minor went to the establishment's bathroom. She claims that there was a knock on the door, but she did not open it, and when she was leaving, she met the man who had said he was from Belgium. According to the claimant, he lunged at her and began to kiss her on the mouth. He lowered his pants and began to touch her in her intimate parts with his hands. The victim claims that he also inserted his penis into her anus and believes that he ejaculated.
Paralyzed
The minor also said that the attacker was taking photos with his mobile phone when they were in the restroom, and the man wrote down his telephone number. Once the incident was over, the minor left the restroom but said nothing to her family because she was very afraid and was paralyzed with fear).
Her father was surprised by the time it had taken her to leave the restroom and asked her if anything had occurred, but the minor indicated to him that she had become ill and had been vomiting. Nevertheless, once back home, she told her parents what happened, and they went to file a complaint. After communicating the facts to the Civil Guard, judicial protocol was activated, and the minor was examined at Denia hospital by a forensic doctor.
The sexual assault investigation was taken up by the National Police since it had occurred in Denia, and the agents succeeded in identifying the attacker, who was recognized by the victim and her family from photographs.
Subsequent to what happened in the pizzeria restroom, the minor was receiving messages on her mobile phone from the person now arrested, in which he was inviting her to finish the act in his house.
The accused was arrested by the National Police at his residence in Denia, and once at the station, he exercised his right not to say anything, after which, he was brought before a judge once (the police) concluded their investigation. The arrested man showed his mobile telephone to the police, and in the trash section, they found two photos taken with the minor in the restroom.
The police have also taken statements from employees of the establishment to see if they saw something and if the arrested person was in the restaurant when the reported attack occurred.
The incident in question apparently occurred sometime in April at an unspecified location in Italy. A migrant, apparently from the Middle East is shown on video helping his small son pee-on a police car. All the while, he is smiling and speaking to the cameraman in an amused manner.
This is the respect that one immigrant teaches his son for the country that accepted them. While I am not comfortable with the "dark-skinned" description of the man by Il Tempo, I can fully understand the anger this incident has led to in Italy.
The article below from Il Tempo is translated by Fousesquawk. It has a hyperlink to the actual video.
Man makes his son urinate on police car. The shocking video: "Remigration"
June 8, 2026
A shocking video, an affront to one of the symbols of the State by someone who mocks the country that accepted him. In the film circulating on his social media, we see a dark-skinned man busy helping a small child as he is peeing. Nothing strange. Too bad that the boy is forced to urinate on a police car while the adult (the father?) looks at the person making the video and winks in amusement.
Watch the video: Click here.
Lega (party) member, Andrea Cassani is also reposting the video: "While the left talks to us of integration, they teach their children to piss on us. The moment to respond has arrived. Come to the streets with us on Saturday, April 18, in Piazza Duomo in Milan to say enough with this illegal and uncivil invasion," the member of Lega says, who writes, "An immigrant educates his son. The only solution is remigration."
