We had a quick swim, got ready, went to a place for dinner and then made our way to the Sari Club. That was when a van in the street containing the second bomb is believed to have gone off outside the Sari Club. I've never smelled that before. THIOLINA:I had kept the piece of broken glass the doctor took out from my eye. Mr Fyfe has since emerged as a passionate advocate of RPH and Professor Woods Fiona Wood Foundation, where he has been a board member since 2013. On October 12, 2002, terrorists struck in Bali. On 30 April 2003, the first charges related to the Bali bombings were made against Amrozi bin Haji Nurhasyim, known as Amrozi, for allegedly buying the explosives and the van used in the bombings. But for someone to have been involved in something of that nature, against innocent people [who] were just there on holidays and enjoying a good time, for them to just look like anyone else that I'd walk past in Bali, it was really challenging to deal with. We are lucky at The Herald. DECI: When I woke up my position was under the car's dashboard. (All interviews have been condensed and edited for clarity.). He is believed to have assisted the Bali bomber Amrozi in acquiring some of the explosives used in the Bali bombings. Eddie McGuire on Nine Network's television call of McCartney's return after the bombings (North Melbourne vs. Richmond, Round 11, 2003)[49]. Many severely injured Australians did survive, due to early interventions, but not everyone made it and Dr Pethick had a critical role in speaking with their families at that dark time. Imron and Idris dropped the motorbike at a place where it eventually attracted the attention of the caretaker. It was dark. Senior Constable Timothy Britten and Mr Richard Joyes of Western Australia were both awarded the Cross of Valour for their actions during the course of the day. Hence, why we saw such a big fireball, such a big incendiary effect and why there was just such a horrendous type of injury. Serious but stable condition. It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse. "I just kept setting myself small goals," he said. But my instincts fight or flight kicked in and I just started crawling and then I crawled to the front of the club. A granite cube serves as a memorial in the Eastern Formal Gardens of Parliament House. The Indonesian chief of police, General Da'i Bachtiar said that the bombing was the "worst act of terror in Indonesia's history". Just past midnight on 9 November 2008, the three convicted of carrying out the bombings (Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim, and Ali Ghufron) were executed by a firing squad. Energy Minister Bill Johnston said Mr Fyfes experience across WA places him in a strong position for the challenges and opportunities he will face, as we progress towards a low-carbon, renewable energy future. That can only be in a war and Indonesia is not at war."[47]. The bombing occurred during one of the busiest tourist periods of the year in Kuta Beach, driven in part by many Australian sporting teams making their annual end-of-season holiday. Bali bombing survivor Dave Fyfe while in a coma at Royal Perth Hospital. The University of Western Australia is offering more courses than ever before. Many of the injured were forced to be flown extreme distances to Darwin (1,800km or 1,100mi) and Perth (2,600km or 1,600mi) for specialist burn treatment. CSABI: It's like one of those large, six-foot gas cylinders blowing up right next to you, exploding. "For me it was an easy way out. SHANE HAMMING,an explosives specialist with the AFP's Australian bomb data centrewho was sent to Bali: I first heard about [the bombing] on the news on the Sunday, I think. MCEWAN: As we were running up PoppiesLane, people were running towards us and away from what they had already experienced. So I [was] attached to what was called the reconciliation team [which]looks at data and tries to identify the dead and that includes DNA and fingerprints and the traditional sort of forensic methodologies as well. [At some point] I said 'I need some tourniquets, I'm bleeding out here'. I can only imagine I was thrown quite a few metresbecause when I woke up, I didn't think I was in the same place when that bomb went off. His account of the bombing, his struggle to overcome his horrific injuries and the work of Fiona Wood in saving his life, graphically demonstrated the great work the Foundation has already done and why FPA . Albany Advertiser (incl. CSABI: I can't understand what goes through your mind there except when I woke up, I was just looking down. a 2002 Bali bombing survivor and regularly speaks at events in WA. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. By looking at understanding how the circuitry was designed, or what trigger mechanism was used, or even what explosive mixture was [used, it] can give us a really strong intelligence as to the training and understanding of who might have actually trained them. He said he would appeal. Being a survivorfor me is a life sentenceEvery time the families get together there's a hole where their sons were or their daughters were or their husbands and then in the last 20 years, there's been so much that'shappened So it's difficult to move on. [5], On 9 November 2008, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Imam Samudra and Huda bin Abdul Haq were executed by firing squad on the island prison of Nusakambangan. In 2011, Mr Fyfe graduated with a UWA Graduate Certificate in Business and is now the CEO of Synergy. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. About 103 Australians remain unaccounted for including: Debbie Borgia, 45 and daughter Abbey, 13 (from Tempe), Steve Buchan, 47 and his wife Geraldine, 46 (from Chifley), Paul Cronin, 31 (from the Forbes Platypii rugby union club), Billy Hardy, 20 (from Tweed Heads, member of Southport Sharks football team and brother of Big Brother housemate Jessica), Dimmy Kotronakis, 27 and sister Elizabeth, 33 (from Blacktown), Lynette McKeon, 46 and her daughter Marissa, 14 (from Kincumber), Brad Ridley, 32 (from the Forbes Platypii), Greg Sanderson, 24 (from the Forbes Platypii), Charles Van Renen, 26 (Sydney, lived in Hong Kong), Shane Walsh-Till, 32 (from Leeton in the Riverina), Six officials and family involved in the South Sydney Juniors Rugby League Club, Stacey Lee, 30, her husband Justin Lee, 31 and Aaron Lee, 33 (all from Geelong), Matthew Bolwerk, 27 (from Secret Harbour, south of Perth), Jenny and Jane Corteen, 39 (twins from Perth), Dean Gallagher, 19 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Byron Hancock, 22 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Nicole Harrison, 29 (from Mandurah, south of Perth), Gary Nash (from Perth) in Royal Brisbane Hospital, David Ross, 20 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Anthony Stewart, 29 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Jason Stokes, 31 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Jonathon Wade, 21 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club). Despite a snapped Achilles tendon in his right leg, he managed to drag himself outside to the pavement before feeling the back of his legs and ending with hands pooled in blood. The militant organisation is believed to have started planning the bombing some 10 months earlier after ordering a new strategy of hitting soft targets, such as nightclubs and bars. Police also uncovered training manuals on ambush techniques and numerous articles on jihad. After it was announced, Polri monitored the sudden flurry of communications among numbers listed in Amrozi's telephone before the calls abruptly ceased. There were so many people injured by the explosion that some of the injured had to be placed in hotel pools near the explosion site to ease the pain of their burns. Australian University. Balinese boys were hanging off the tree branches to one side, watching. [7] Twenty seconds later, a second and much more powerful car bomb hidden inside a white Mitsubishi van was detonated by another suicide bomber outside the Sari Club, a renowned open-air thatch-roof bar located opposite Paddy's Pub. The Bali Peace Park Association offered the equivalent of $350,000 for the land when it appeared it could be used only for a park, said the group's chairman, David Napoli. You're in Bali, you don't think it's going to be a terrorist or even a bomb. I looked to the left where the Sari Club was, and it was just absolute chaos. He still has some metal shrapnel in his old wounds and has undergone many skin grafts and follow-up surgeries. To see the data you will need to Subscribe. I tried to keep calm and made my way to escape the fire. Then 33, he was on an end-of-year soccer trip and standing on the edge of the dance floor at Paddys Bar in Kuta when the first of three bombs went off. There are also some graffiti memorials in memory of the dead. ALAN ATKINSON, former ABC journalist and one of the first reporters on the scene: It was Saturday evening. Her body has been returned to SA. Reuters:Darren Whiteside DW/JS/File photo, Aviation industry awaits answers why Qantas issued 'unusual' mayday alert, New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern says she will not seek re-election, Teenage boys charged over alleged Tara shooting to face court today, Are the climate wars really over? SIDNEY JONES, an expert onsecurity in South-East Asia and founder and senior adviser to the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict: I think [the people behind the attacks] hoped to literally cause fear. The then 33-year-old refused to use a wheelchair. Mr Fyfe has nothing but praise for those who helped him; the doctors, nurses, and the prosthetic expert who fitted him with a new leg. The final death toll was 202, mainly comprising Western tourists and holiday-makers in their 20s and 30s who were in or near Paddy's Pub or the Sari Club, but also including many Balinese Indonesians working or living nearby, or simply passing by. They assisted in placing IV cannulas and IDCs, as well as offering emotional support, and began transferring patients out to the airport pending arrival of Australian Army medics on a Hercules plane. Creecy was one of the hundreds injured in Saturday's blast that left at least 187 people dead. GREEN: On my first rotation over there, I was assisting on the criminal side of the investigation. The previous year, they had been to Phuket. He shies away from giving advice to others facing hardship. An Indonesian-style stone memorial is situated in Allambe Memorial Park at Nerang. These laws were used by the prosecution instead of existing criminal laws as they allowed the death penalty to be imposed and lowered certain evidentiary restrictions. Quite a few people had got out. But Amrozi's mobile phone proved to be the real catch. It was alleged that he tried to overthrow the government and establish an Islamic state. The Mitsubishi L300 van bomb was initially thought to have consisted of C4, a military grade plastic explosive which is difficult to obtain. Perth WA 6009 Australia. My left arm was stuck in the car's door. So I threw that piece of glass at Kuta Beach and the articles that my friends sent me, I burnt them all. David Fyfe came close to losing his life in the Bali bombings and still carries major physical scars. The largest group among those killed were tourists from Australia with 88 fatalities. There was only two of us in the pub, which was kind of unheard of on a Saturday night. Normally, we would have gone down to Paddy's Bar there but the two officers had only just stepped off the plane, so they didn't want to. It's a night those who survived will never forget, Jacinda Ardern has announced she will not be seeking re-election and her term as New Zealand's prime minister will end February 7, Keep up with the latest ASX and business news, For the latestflood and weather warnings, search onABC Emergency, Keep across all the live scores and results from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park. The cabinets, each containing a potassium chlorate, aluminum powder, sulfur mixture with a TNT booster, was connected by 150 metres (490ft) of PETN-filled detonating cord. ATKINSON: Sanglah Hospital was like a war zone. MCEWAN: [From the restaurant] we saw an inferno in the distance. Ladies that organised the hospital because you know, a lot of the Indonesians couldn't speak English or couldn't speak any other languages I guess I'd probably love nothing better than to see some of these people recognised for the magnificent jobs that they did that night [and] the next day. Bali bombings: The 28 British victims of the bombers VIEW COMMENTS 11 October 2012 T wenty-eight Britons were killed during the Bali bombings on October 12, 2002: :: Timothy Arnold, 43, a. It has different religious traditions, a whole range of different traditions [and]the people are different. It was towards Jalan Legian but the inferno was that broad we thought it could have been our hotel [near Kuta Beach]. [5] However, former FBI agent Ali Soufan confirmed in his book, The Black Banners, that al-Qaeda did in fact finance the attack. I choose not to live in the past, but to live in the now.. On 15 October 2004, he was arrested by the Indonesian authorities and charged with involvement in another bomb attack, which killed 14 people at the J. W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta on 5 August 2003. Or that a third bomb would detonate about 45 seconds later nearthe US consulate. Under questioning Amrozi revealed the names of six others involved in the bombing: Ali Imron, Imam Samudra, Dul Matin, Idris, Abdul Ghani and Umar Patek. Mr Fyfe staggered outside. Denpasar court official Nengah Sanjaya said the 3-page appeal would be sent to a Cilacap, central Java court. Angela Golotta, 19 (from Tea Tree Gully, was on holidays with her parents). And my condition was not good. His remarkable resilience meant that he was determined to get the most out of life, despite his injuries. DE HAART: I guess I was in a state of shock and this guy came up and he shoved a girl in my arms and said 'look after her' and he turned around and went back into the Sari Club. He managed to crawl from the wreckage, despite suffering 50% burns, straight into another blast.. One Melburnian survivor of the bombings was North Melbourne AFL player Jason McCartney. [After the meeting] I remember all of us, the forensic team, the investigations team, the bomb data-centre specialists that were over there, there was a lot of quiet pride, I guess. [When I got] to the army hospital I could hear the noise of a lot of people. An audio-cassette purportedly carrying a recorded voice message from Osama bin Laden stated that the Bali bombings were in direct retaliation for support of the United States' War on Terror and Australia's role in the liberation of East Timor. They were given some instructions on how to mix the components of the explosive and they did the best they could, I guess. The Pentagon has announced plans to move ahead with a military trial for three men held at Guantnamo Bay who are suspected of involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings.. After an unexplained delay . On 12 October 2010, Australian and Indonesian survivors of the 2002 bombings attended a solemn commemoration service to mark the eighth anniversary of the devastating attacks.[48]. The speeches exhorted listeners to wage jihad. The pair had been in the Sari Club, which was wrecked by the bigger secondary blast, just two drinks earlier. Weve got a newsletter for everyone. An unofficial list of the dead, missing and injured Australians following the bomb blasts in Bali: 30 Australians are confirmed dead including: Shane Foley, 34 (from the Coogee Beach Dolphins junior rugby league club), Marc Gajardo, 30 (from Cornwall, was living in Byron Bay), Adam Howard, 26 (from Double Bay, member of the Dolphins), Josh Iliffe, 28 (from Kensington, member of the Dolphins), Linda Makawana, 49 (formerly of Kiama, lived in Bali for five years), Dave Mavroudis, 29 (from Wagga Wagga, member of the Dolphins), Jodie O'Shea, 29 (from Como, died in Royal Perth Hospital), Kathy Salvatori, 38 (from Malabar, wife of former rugby league international Craig), Clinton Thompson, 29 (from Griffith, member of the Dolphins), Gerard Yeo, 20 (from Dubbo and member of the Coogee Dolphins), Corey Paltridge, 20 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Robert Thwaites, 24 (from the Gold Coast), Jared Gane, 27 (from Gold Coast, and possibly also a NZ citizen), David Kent, 41 (living in Singapore, formerly Queensland), Joshua Deegan, 22 (from Adelaide, a member of the SANFL club Sturt). He didn't dwell on the wounds left by the shrapnel that had ripped through him, or the jagged pieces still lodged in his flesh. Then, according to people, I ran away from the site. The service is attended by survivors of the 2002 rugby tour to Bali, friends and family of those who lost their lives, as well as current and past players of the club. Then I was out. A steady line of cars passed by, offeringpassengers a glimpse into Bali's party scene from the safety of their tinted windows. THIOLINA: Suddenly, I felt there was a really big hand taking me out of the car I'm not sure where I was taken out from, whether from the car's door or the window. Blatantly lied to: Clarkes ex responds to cheating drama, McGowan to spruik WAs green hydrogen during Asian junket, Gore criticises oil influence at COP talks, Ride out economic turbulence without making emergency exit, Trade, investment key to peaceful Pacific. 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