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Sydney’s streets are currently on fire. The Daily Telegraph’s new doco series The Road To War delves into the feud that started it all in the first episode 'Till Death Do Us Part'
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Good afternoon Wentyl,

Sydney's underworld has exploded in recent months in an escalation of the city's underworld wars.

However, gang wars are not a new thing in the Harbour City. A new doco series from The Daily Telegraph, The Road To War, delves into the city's first gangland war between two feuding families.

imageThe conflict between the Razzaks and the Darwiches began in the wake of the Sydney Olympics as the two families went toe-to-toe, gunning each other down in public and spraying the opponents’ homes with more bullets than police could count.

At one point, the Darwiches even considered using a rocket launcher to annihilate their rivals. Read more here.

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