Seb Costello

The Ghost is, you know, barely out of his early 20s.

The story goes that, you know, he is impatient and, you know, disrespectful of other underworld figures and that he's just attacking businesses willy-nilly without too much organisation about it, which, you know, makes him a dangerous person.

You know, it's not clear that that is where the shots are being called from in Iraq, but I think part of the reason that theory has picked up some speed is because these same people were firebombing businesses during the tobacco wars.

So it stands to reason that you might explore whether they are doing it this time around.

Yeah, well, definitely there's limitations on, you know, how they can hold people in another country to account.

Yeah, that's a concern, you know, it's outside their jurisdiction.

Personally, I'm starting to suspect that at least some of the attacks are for, you know, far more homegrown reasons.

You know, either a personal grudge, you know, maybe there has been some dispute over the sale of narcotics in some of these nightclubs.

I just think the tobacco wars was quite organised and it was done with a really deliberate financial motive.

You know, these people were saying, if you don't stock our illegal cigarettes, we'll blow you up.

You know, we haven't yet seen a financial ask, you know, so I just think for the crime figures, if they were behind it and investing all this money in futsal, just going out and doing the dirty work and the arsons, we'd have a clearer idea of how they were financially benefiting from it.

That's not to say that, you know, none of these attacks could have been ordered from overseas, particularly when you've got some venues that have been attacked twice.

There's a venue that's been attacked three times.

That shows that this is about, you know, specific, you know, resentments or specific targets rather than the initial feeling that this was some sort of industry-wide campaign and that no one was safe.

Well, security.

They're investing in security.

You know, they're putting on more security guards than they usually would.

They're upgrading things like CCTV cameras, bollards, outside venues.

You know, there was a group of venue owners who met with the opposition leader, Jess Wilson, last week.

The next day, the venue where they all gathered for that meeting...