shootings

11 Oct: Australian-born radical Muslim arrested over near-fatal shooting

AN Australian-born man known to intelligence authorities for his extreme religious views has been charged over an alleged near-fatal shooting outside a sex club in Sydney’s northwest in May 2013. Milad Bin Ahmad Shah al-Ahmadzai, 23, has been charged over the May 1 shooting and ambush of a 52-year-old man outside the Aarows nightclub on Bridge St, Rydalmere. The establishment is a 24-hour gay, bisexual and swingers club. Ahmadzai was arrested at Goulburn prison on 10 October 2013. The victim sustained significant injuries during the ambush, including extensive damage to his back, foot, and groin. He was walking back to his car about 1am when the alleged incident unfolded, with CCTV capturing the two men with their faces concealed firing a number of shots. Ahmadzai has been under investigation by the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad’s Strike Force Maloney ever since , which is still searching for two accomplices. He…

31 Jul: Ethnic crime: Middle Eastern bikie gangs at war in Sydney

On Monday July 29, 2013 two Middle Eastern males with links to bikie gangs and terroristsĀ  were killed just kilometres – and minutes – apart, becoming the latest victims of Sydney’s out-of-control gun violence. The targeted attacks were reportedly linked to an ongoing lethal bikie turf war between the Comanchero and Hells Angels gangs. Vasko Boskovski and Bassil Hijazi died in a hail of bullets in Sydney’s southwest, the 20th and 21st person to be killed by assassins’ bullets since Barry O’Farrell came to power in March 2011. Vasco Boskovski Bassil Hijazi Debt collector and businessman Boskovski, 35, a father of two, was gunned down outside his home in Earlwood about 9.30pm on Monday. It has since emerged Boskovski was a co-director in a company with convicted Punchbowl terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, who was jailed in 2005 for plotting to blow up the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor. About 15 minutes later,…