The matriarch of one of the two Sydney families in the notorious eight-year Darwiche-Razzak shooting feud that resulted in 10 murder convictions has died.
The family conflict between the Lebanese-Australian clans involved multiple murders, shootings, assaults and weapons thefts in western Sydney from 2001 to 2009.
In the violent feud, one of Mrs Darwiche’s sons, AbdulQader, was shot dead and another was convicted of two murders.
The most notorious of the family members is Adnan “Eddie” Darwiche who is serving life plus 20 years without parole for two murders.
Adnan’s mother, Haji Samira Darwiche, is being buried this morning at Rookwood Cemetery after a ceremony at Lakemba Mosque.
A family tribute on Facebook to Mrs Darwiche lists “her beloved children Abdul Latif, Mustafa, Khadija, The late AbdulQader, Adnan and Ali”.
Samirah and husband Farouk “Frank” Darwiche lived peacefully in Sydney's west with their six children until 2001.
The violent feud began after daughter Khadija’s marriage to a Razzak family member broke down as did another marriage between the families and another clan, the Fahdas, contributing to bad blood between the families.
Family members, in particular Adnan Darwiche, were part of rival illegal cannabis operations.
The feud turned violent in February 2001, when Adnan Darwiche and Bilal Razzak clashed at a Bankstown cafe and shots were then fired into Darwiche’s car at the family residence in Punchbowl.
That night, Adnan, one of his brothers and another Darwiche clan male drove to a Razzak residence and fired shots into the house.
In June 2001, Adnan and another man stormed into Bilal Razzak’s Bankstown unit wearing balaclavas and carrying Glock pistols.
Adnan fired three shots into Razzak, paralysing him.
Bilal Razzak eventually served time for contempt of court, but was never convicted of any violent crimes.
When Farouk Darwiche died that year, Adnan became a devout Muslim, gave up peddling drugs and peace ensued for almost two years.
But in July 2003, a murder reignited it, when Adnan’s right-hand man was shot in both legs by two masked men as he spoke to a friend in a Bankstown halal butchery.
Less than a month later, in August 2003, believing the Razzaks were good for the butcher shop shooting, Adnan and another man armed with SKS semiautomatic rifles sat off the one of the extended Razzak family’s house.
When another man fired 11 shots into it, patriarch Farouk Razzak emerged but a further 55 rounds shot by the three gunmen failed to even strike him.
Two days later, on the morning of August 29, 2003, Jamal Razzak claimed to have been assaulted by Adnan and two others and had an assault rifle pointed at him.
Two hours later, at 1.23pm while he was parked near Lakemba Mosque, Ali Abdul Razzak was shot and killed after two men wearing balaclavas drew up in a vehicle.
the passenger for out of the car, fired 14 rounds, killing Razzak.
Over the next two months, 31 Glock pistols were stolen from a security company in Chester Hill.
One was found at a shootout between the clans and two Razzak males went into hiding.
Adnan Darwiche ten allegedly bought seven rocket launchers, selling five to Mohammed Ali Elomar.
Elomar is one of the men convicted in the so-called Pendennis plot to blow up Parliament House or the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor.
He is the uncle of Syrian war martyr, Mohammed Elomar.
In October 2003, Adnan Darwiche and five other men fired 100 rounds into a house, killing Ziad and Nemra Razzak.
Two weeks later, Ahmed Fahda was murdered when two men armed with pistols fired 29 rounds into him at a gas station.
In December 2003, more than 50 shots were fired in the car park of the Kings Head Tavern.
In May 2004, four men were shot out outside a Darwiche house, with Michael Darwiche suffering a bullet wound.
On March 14, 2009, after almost five years of relative peace, Abdul Darwiche was shot seven times as he and his family left a Bass Hill restaurant.
Mohammed Fahda was convicted and sentenced to 20 years for the murder.
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