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THE cold-blooded daylight execution of drug boss Abdul Qadier Darwiche will inevitably lead to more bloodshed, a senior police source warned yesterday.
The shooting death of the 37-year-old has thrown a major criminal syndicate into disarray, with police warning retribution was likely to follow "within months".
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The fact is, if (Darwiche's gang) are going to remain major players in the crime game, they're going to have to reassert themselves . . . their boss has been killed, so it's not a minor player and you can't just say, 'Give us $100,000 in blood money and we'll call it quits'," the source said yesterday.
"(Darwiche's) crew has a huge problem now in terms of face and it's also likely to encourage those who have been sitting on the sidelines to take advantage of the instability."
He confirmed that as many as six children, including Darwiche's own, were in a nearby fast-food restaurant at the time of the shooting.
Insp Olen said Strike Force Solomon would draw heavily from the files of Task Force Gain, set up in 2003 to investigate the open warfare between the Darwiche and Razzak families.
The violence began in 2001 as Abdul Darwiche's brother Adnan and Bilal Razzak disputed drug territory. Adnan Darwiche was later found guilty of shooting Razzak.
Lighting fuse of drug gangs war: Darwiche vs Razzaks | The Daily Telegraph