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That's a clicktastic inventory. And check out the financing options payments to fit our budget. I mean, that's Clickonomics101 delivery to our door. Just a hop, skip and a click away. And bot no better feeling than when everything just clicks. Buy your car today on Carvana. Delivery fees may apply. Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast with Benjamin Boster. If you're tired of sleepless nights, you'll love the I Can't Sleep podcast. I help quiet your mind by reading random articles from across the web to bore you to sleep with my soothing voice. Each episode provides enough interesting content to hold your attention and then your mind lets you drift off. Find it wherever you get your podcasts. That's I Can't Sleep With Benjamin Boster. January 28, 2025 Melbourne, Australia people keep trying to kill Sam the Punisher Abdul Rahim, professional kickboxer and infamous underworld figure. In 2019, he's first ambushed in a drive by and then later bashed in the head with a rock while serving his first day in prison. In June of 2022, he's shot eight times outside his cousin's funeral. Then in May of 2024, 17 shots are fired at him outside of his home. His house is also shot up when he's not home. Then firebombed that isn't even a mention. All the times the police have warned him to cancel a fight because of a contract on his head. Or the multiple times he's had the venues he was supposed to fight at firebombed and burned down right before the fight. It gets so bad it basically ends his career as a professional fighter. Abdul Rahim has given plenty of people reasons to want to hurt him. In 2015, he infamously got into a wild brawl at a Melbourne courthouse with a rival kickboxer. That same year, he crashed a Ferrari while high, killing a grandmother and injuring 10 others. He'd also fallen out with the Comanchera biker gang, of which he was a member, then switched up and joined the Mongols biker gang, only to fall out with them after pissing off another gangster. And yet another gangster who he worked with had a falling out with him after Abdul Rahim refused to back him up in a casino brawl. The thing he did that most likely pissed off people enough to want him dead, though, came on the orders of notorious gangster and drug lord George Marogi. In 2016, Abdul Rahim allegedly set up a Lieutenant of one of Marogi's up and coming rivals, luring him into a location where he was ambushed by a hitman and killed. Unfortunately for Abdurrahim, that up and coming rival happens to be Kaz Hamad, who over the next 10 years is going to rise to become the king of Melbourne's gangland, taking on all comers, firebombing and murdering rivals. Even after he's deported to Iraq, by 2026, his fortune will be estimated to be in the hundreds of millions as he blazes a path of violence across the city. Nearly everyone thinks it's Hamad behind all the attempts on Abdul Rahim's life. Abdurrahim finally Wises up in 2024, going underground and bouncing around Southeast Asia to try to stay one step ahead of the bounty on his head. Which makes it all the more confusing as to why In January of 2025, he comes back to Australia. And on this day, January 28, 2025, a Tuesday morning, he's walking in the parking lot of a hotel and apartment complex he had just secretly stayed at with his girlfriend when he's ambushed by a hitman squad of four and shot dead. They escape in a white Porsche, later found burned. Abdurrahim have been planning to leave the country again soon, but somehow Hamad's people get tipped off about his location and sneak into the supposedly very secure complex. Very few people are surprised at the hit. In Melbourne, anyone who stands in Kaz Hamad's way is sure to be ruthlessly dispatched. This is the Underworld Podcast. Welcome back to the Underworld Podcast, where every week two journalists who have reported on crime and conflict around the world bring you, our listeners, a new story of international organized crime, past, present and future. I am one of your hosts, Danny Gold, here in New York City, and I'm joined by notorious and unrepentant gringo Sean Williams, now based in Buenos Aires, where he is already beloved by local bartenders and late night empanada salesman and 5pm coffees.
