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THE 'Fat' Freddie Thompson and Brian Rattigan mobs are no more and have been replaced by SIX new gangs with an incredible 200 members, the Sunday World can reveal .

Gardai have set up a new elite anti-gang unit and have declared war on the vicious new breed of gangsters, some of whom are as young as 16.

The mobsters have emerged from the ashes of the bloody Crumlin/Drimnagh feud and are involved in murders, armed robberies and pipe bombings.

The new crews are operating within just a few square miles in Dublin's south-inner city and gardai say they are the most dangerous criminals they have ever encountered.