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the new task force launched following
recent deadly shootings in sydney last
week three men were shot only one
surviving we are targeting members of
the commander outlaw motorcycle group
there's more to come in the coming days
and weeks
it's
we're back again um
been quite a common occurrence recently
there's been another shooting in
sydney's suburban straits tell us about
what's happened that's right just days
after the commentary sergeant-at-arms
tariq saheed was shot 10 times and his
brother fatally wounded at a norman
jim you have a member of the hamed
family
rami iskandar who was shot dead at
belmore home we've had 13 fatal
shootings here in new south wales in
just the last 18 months two of those in
the last week alone and that is the
reason new south wales police are going
so hard with this it is creating a few
problems for police now
you know the motives for and who's
behind
the shooting of the commandeer brothers
and the shooting of the young man on on
saturday morning who's a member of the
hamed family
is a matter of conjecture you know
straight away everybody thought that
this young guy has been shot as a
retaliation because they're blaming the
ahmed family for the shooting of the
tsar heads the police say it's not that
simple no and they have set up a task
force as you said it's called erebus
unlike a strike force which would just
hone in on one one murder this task
force is going to take officers from all
sorts of different uh units and squads
and they're looking at predominantly
those three murders
beyond that into what they believe is
the root cause which is what started it
these are drug distribution crime
families or organizations with lots of
money
that these murders have all sprung from
and that is what's created the
atmosphere we now have out there in
south west sydney particularly where
anyone who's involved in the illicit
drug trade or a criminal group they
don't know if they're next nobody knows
who's shooting who
no absolutely and look we've spoken
about it a lot recently
we've had over the past 12 18 months
this major conflict going on in sydney
south west involving uh the alamedan
clan uh the hamzy clan their rivals
the almaden clan's been uh has teamed up
with the comaceros australia's most
powerful uh bikey gang criminal network
according to police yeah and they've
really created this dominant force on
the streets controlling the drug trade
there's a lot of discussion the people
we've been speaking to about you know
whether
it's others teaming up saying okay we
need to try and
get back into the game take a bit of
this away and so we're going to target
one of the most senior members as we saw
the other week in in tariq's area and
that is that that hit is the one that's
in shivers through a lot of people um
especially now there's been another
another
murder that they say is related because
initially if it was internal
uh a commentary involving commentary
that i mean it's not nice but the fact
that maybe it seems that the
commentaries believe it's somebody
outside
that means that
someone is dared to take on the
commentaries and that's a pretty
frightening thought because they will
hit back and hit back very very hard
already quickly within days if that is
correct but you've got these criminal
groups who go there's this massive fight
and they're sitting there on the
sidelines and thinking well we can duck
in and shoot a few people here create
mayhem
and sit back and
while they're they're busy trying to
figure out what to do about
the other gang they're pinching their
drug business or
they're you know they know these people
are spending time and energy not doing
the business of drug dealing and uh
criminal activity it's a ruthless game
isn't it we've got it we've got a bloke
in romney a scandal on saturday 23 year
old yep exactly early 20s he's got a
pregnant partner
already and there you go yeah and so we
saw we saw with brownie ahmed when he
was shot dead uh last month
and with tarik uh and omar's ahead when
they were attacked
that they were you know um brownie was
at his mate's place he was shot dead in
the street
tarak and omar were at a gym on
parramatta road when they were they were
shot but this attack on saturdays i
think is particularly chilling in my
opinion because it's at his home you
know he's got a wife there and it's
really it just goes to show how
little regard these people have for
those that they are targeting that's
right and anyone associated with them
there is and so there is very
little of that old school never in front
of the family or
that's gone by the wayside if it ever
existed but particularly amongst this
now that you know um
with zahid
he had other members of his family his
mother was there at the gym yeah this
one again in front of a pregnant woman
who went into labor almost all with the
false labor so yeah they're just
anybody is open slather how they
established
if it was the common cheerio hitting
back within two three days they've
decided that this young guy did it and
he was getting threat he he knew he was
a target and denied it obviously yeah
totally and we've spoken a lot about
that recently about bounties on aids but
the talk i'd been in the lead up to this
and very quickly that yep that he knew
he was a he knew
but the police didn't yeah the police
hadn't and they've said on the record
they did not contact him again he was
peripheral he's actually
even the step nephew of brownie to be
quite honest so that's just showing you
how wide this they spread their nets
another um completely unacceptable act
last night in london area house shot up
um for for no reason uh we'll get to the
bottom of that over time the local
police are dealing with that matter we
are targeting
members of the comanchero outlaw
motorcycle group because they are
australia's largest organized criminal
network what's going to happen next and
police are going to be able to
suppress rally and arrest enough people
to to make our streets go quiet for a
while
or are they
going to have the criminal guys are just
going to start shooting willy-nilly
again and just have got more targets we
know there are more targets but whether
they're going to be able to to play out
and hit those people we've already seen
some big raids today and and it's not
going to stop i mean this is also
nothing new
um police have been doing suppression
tactics
ever since this conflict
they're ongoing they're suppressions but
you know you're right now
they you know we've seen even with uh
when brownie was shot raptor there
within minutes which means they were in
the area
uh when zaheds were shot
they were there again so they are in the
they're out there
and doesn't matter where they are they
don't seem to be able to stop because
these one these these criminal guys
i believe they're invincible in some
ways i don't think they believe they can
get hit although this young guy he knew
people
were after him and um
he just he wasn't able to avoid it i
think he'd only been at that address a
short time
uh so they're obviously having very good
intelligence
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and these guys uh
they're employing surveillance tactics
just as much as the police and they've
learned from the police they do counter
surveillance they're known to use
trackers yeah um and they also have
traitors that within camps that
obviously give them information so
this this new uh super task force we
people we've spoken to have been talking
a lot about how uh angry
the common chero godfather mark butler
has been in recent times particularly
off the back of them targeting his new
south wales lieutenant in terry's our
head
how big a problem are the common sheriff
still and and how much of an impact will
this new super task force erebus kind of
have on their stranglehold of the drug
market in sydney
i think they will significantly be able
to
create problems for the commentary but
likewise
they are very very adaptable and as it's
been said then the power of mark battle
is not just his his money and his reach
through reputation
but the fact that they they outsource
the common churro they're not huge in
number they are considered probably the
most powerful crime organization
motorbike but it's because they
they have splinter groups organizations
that they use sometimes that who don't
even know that they're being used by
other groups but it's um it's that's
their power and that's their reach is
that they'll be able to they've got
all these other gangs
and criminal networks that at their
disposal doing
their their grunt work and it's because
of the wealth
that uh that they have because of that
mainly because of their cocaine
obviously cocaine imports you know mark
rattles is known to have international
contacts bringing the money in here
getting big money and he's known to to
not be stingy he he looks after those
guys yeah and that's
you know they're loyal not because they
love mark butler i think it's because
they love money or maybe it's a bit of
both and i think it's love fear and
money is what has kept him
in such control and makes him still so
powerful
so
what a dent
a 60 strong task force can do
i don't know it's gonna it's gonna
depend maybe police are gonna need a bit
of luck these guys are getting totally
you know they've got new powers now to
extra powers to have uh to declare
somebody basically if they they're a
known drug dealer and if the
quarter allow they'll be able to knock
on their door pull them over any time
without a wallet once they're cleared
that will make life hard for some
likewise as i heard somebody say they've
got a deep bench yeah yeah their roster
keeps going back well they've got yeah a
lot of a lot of people so the minute
someone's taken out targeted they've got
somebody else and again they keep doing
their business with you know we keep
saying that these encrypted devices
you know makes it even harder for they
can sit there the police can be sitting
outside their house have their house
bugged
and they'll still be able to order a
contract and send some bitcoin somewhere
yeah get it done and someone's dead yeah
they'll be hoping for a bit of breathing
space to uh get their teeth into some of
these murder investigations that are now
piling up
yeah you know you think um
last thing they wants another shooting
yeah in any shape or form and they'll be
out there really
you know they'll be working their
informants they'll be stopping guys you
just saw last night one of taric's
associates was pulled over he's subject
to fire on prohibition order
he's allegedly been found to have had
cocaine and methamphetamine in his
system but it shows you
you know
how did raptor just happen to be
you know pick him up they obviously
are out there actively looking at any of
the associates the comment heroes the
alamo deans any of them and picking them
up
for any reason that they are allowed to
legally
to try and let them know we're out here
you don't get up to badness because
we're going to get you so we'll just see
what sort of effect it has
you