Bali bombings

The KIIS Network is today commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings with a moving tribute to those whose lives were forever changed by ...

It was also a day of great heroism and selfless acts of courage. The KIIS Network’s commemoration of the 2002 Bali bombings can be heard on KIIS stations throughout today -Wednesday October 12 – or via the free iHeart app. The KIIS Network is today commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings with a moving tribute to those whose lives were forever changed by the attacks.

It's 20 years since a terrorist bomb took the lives of seven members of the Kingsley Football Club on an end-of-season trip.

“They are our family,” he said. Each year he addresses the Cats colts squad about the significance of Bali. it’s heartbreaking seven of them didn’t get the opportunity to be here tonight with children and families. I try and stay out of the media. “This year is going to be real hard because we lost Nimmo,” he said. “This week will be pretty hectic. He died in 2020. “I think of what I didn’t say,” he said. “It’s important to keep the memory going of what happened that night,” he said. “The game’s a great opportunity for all the guys at the club at the time to have a beer and get around each other,” he said. “He was always the life of the party.” The 20th anniversary means “a lot of reflection on the guys we lost in the bombing”.

On October 12, 2002, three bombs were detonated in two busy nightspots in Bali, killing 202 people, 88 of w...

"During that trip, I only started to understand the struggle Natalie suffered trying to save the life of her best friend, Nicole. "The last thing somebody wants is a prime minister who can't control his emotions. I first saw Peter with burns to 55 per cent of his body just four days after the bombings. And I'm looking at a 20-year-old woman on holidays in Bali." "It was a makeshift morgue. "She was just a force to be reckoned with. Cook was relieved to see she wasn't burned but then noticed her arm didn't have a pulse. The unthinkable admission authorities could not be certain the body in front of them had once been their loved one. Nicole McLean and Natalie Goold were just 23 when the bombs went off. It was the single largest loss of Australian life due to an act of [terror](https://www.9news.com.au/terrorism). "I could go through my burns a hundred times over. Four days later he slipped into a coma with burns to more than half his body.

Australia today marks 20 years since the 2002 Bali bombings and tragic loss of 202 lives, including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesians.

Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Tim Watts MP, will attend a commemorative ceremony at the Australian Consulate-General in Bali. To commemorate the anniversary, Prime Minister the Hon Anthony Albanese MP will attend a service at Coogee in Sydney. - The Hon Tim Watts MP, Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs

The plan to bomb and murder tourists in Bali may have been hatched in a hotel room in southern Thailand.

He instructs one suicide bomber to put on his vest. In 2003 he is found guilty of masterminding the attacks and is sentenced to death. [two bombings](https://www.9news.com.au/bali-bombings)at a popular tourist spot in Kuta, Bali killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. In 2003 he is found guilty and is sentenced to death. [Hambali is linked to the Bali bombings](https://www.9news.com.au/world/families-of-bali-bombing-victims-dont-want-death-penalty-for-mastermind/bca2e7b1-ab5d-4b43-9502-4271cf19be1d). During his trial, he is dubbed the "smiling bomber" for his expressions in court. An evacuation of the burned and injured begins, with many flown to hospitals in Darwin and Perth on RAAF Hercules aircraft. The first bomber heads for Paddy's Pub and Imron exits the van, leaving the second bomber to drive a short distance to right outside the Sari Club. Imron now gets behind the wheel of a white Mitsubishi L300 van and drives two suicide bombers in to the nightclub district in Kuta. Three of the group go together to purchase a brand new Yamaha motorbike, and Imron uses the bike to plant a small bomb outside the US Consulate in Denpasar. Amrozi and Ali Imron help build and transport the bombs used in the attacks. A group of JI-affiliated plotters meet at the house of Ali Imron, who was later jailed for life for his part in the attacks.

Jane Corteen and Jenny Corteen were among the 202 people, including 88 Australians, killed in the Bali bombings 20 years ago.

I can remember back when I was 60 and they gave me a surprise birthday party. It wasn’t until I sold that property and moved down to Safety Bay, it was like a new start. When they took the coffins out of the Qantas plane with the Australian flags wrapped around them and put them in the hearses, I just wished myself dead. He stayed and talked to me for probably an hour-and-a-half, and of course, I went through a box of tissues. And I suppose a lot of parents that lose children would have felt the exact same feeling. I was in my hotel room when two men came to the door and said: ‘we found them’. When it rang and the radio came on, the first thing that I heard was news of the Bali bombings. The DNA sample I provided was handed over, but it wasn’t until the following Saturday before they identified Jane and Jenny. He met me at the airport and took me to the hotel. I was living in a suburb south of Perth at the time. My sister came with me, it would have been about a fortnight after the bombings, and I still hadn’t heard anything. They were on holiday in Bali, and at 11pm on October 12th, they were inside the Sari Club when it was attacked.

On October 13, 2002, a small team of Air Force personnel embarked on one of the largest Australian aeromedical evacuations since the Vietnam War.

20 years later, the C-17A Globemaster III and C-27J Spartan airframes are also used to conduct aeromedical evacuations. Help is always available through the below specialised counselling services and resources: Additionally, in the past 20 years, capabilities have been improved to better prepare for similar situations. Squadron Leader Cook, an Air Force Reserve doctor, was on the first C-130 aeromedical evacuation flight into Bali. It feels like just yesterday – the sight, the smell, the feeling. The terrorist attacks killed 202 people, including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesians, and injured many others.

Survivors will mark the anniversary by praying together at a memorial which now stands where the Sari Club once stood.

His first memory was waking up to find himself on the floor behind the bar at the back of the club where he had been serving drinks. “And he will get his punishment, not just on this earth, but in the life hereafter. It was not until seven days after the bombings, that Laksmi found her husband’s body at a local hospital and was able to formally identify him by his uniform. What was the point in thinking about it all the time? “Then we will have a kind of family gathering where we can all be together and support each other,” Arnold said. Laksmi and Arnold will meet each other on the morning of October 12, as they have done every year since the bombing. His two brothers, Amrozi and Mukhlas, were executed in 2008 for their part in the attacks, along with a fourth member of JI, named Imam Samudra. “I showed it to the children, to show them that he wasn’t coming home. Sardjono had hired a car for the group’s visit, and after enjoying dinner together, he planned to drop them back at their hotel before heading to work. “I was so sad,” she told Al Jazeera as she recalled that morning. On the ground, among the debris, she discovered one of his shoes. He was the most responsible husband, and it was such a great loss.

The attack testified to the horrifying vision of the now-defunct Jemaah Islamiyah, which aimed to establish an Islamic Caliphate in Southeast Asia.

Thiolina says these days there are too many people who just don’t “know about the story that happened at that place.” Not to be sad but to educate people about why those monuments are there,” she said in halting English. The last of the Bali bombers, Umar Patek, was tracked down a year later. Umar Patek was subsequenly convicted of six terrorism-related charges, including murder and bomb-making, and he would serve 10 years from a 20 year prison sentence. He was captured on January 25, 2011 near Abbottabad, where bin Laden was killed by U.S. Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim, and Huda bin Abdul Haq were convicted and executed in November 2008.

Anthony Albanese joins Australians in remembering the victims of the Bali bombings on the 20th anniversary of the explosions that claimed 202 lives.

"We rush to help without thinking of our own safety. "The Bali bombings were then, and still are, the largest loss of Australian life due to a terrorist attack in history," she said. The city played a vital role in the wake of the attack and was the first port of call for injured Australians who were flown in for treatment. Survivors became saviours, somehow overcoming their pain." "It was a dinky emergency department and an antiquated ICU [but] it was the people that made it," he said. He described the bombings as "an act of malic and calculated depravity" while also acknowledging that alongside tourists and residents, a number of Australian sporting teams who were in Bali enjoying end-of-season holidays.

Two decades on from the Bali bombings, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the ache hasn't dimmed for Australians, describing the atrocities committed as ...

"Sometimes the waves are huge and they knock you under, they knock you over. "All the very worst of circumstances brought out the very best in people. we know that survivors will continue to carry the burden of these acts, whether we can see it or not." The awful postscript of fire." "Grief comes in waves. "Bob was 25.

People affected by the 2002 Bali bombings gathered on the Indonesian resort island to commemorate 20 years since the twin bombing that killed 202 people.

The court sentenced him to 15 years in prison for his role. But the Australian government has expressed its strong opposition to his possible release. Three years later, another bomb attack the island and killed 20 people. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attended a service in his hometown, Sydney, at the beachside suburb of Coogee. Two decades after the Bali bombings, counterterrorism efforts in the world’s most populous Muslim country remain highly active. Twenty years on, the ache does not dim,” Albanese said. Twenty years ago, an act of malice and calculated depravity robbed the world of 202 lives, including 88 Australians. We stand with the survivors, relatives and families and support them at this time. That night remains seared into the national memories of Indonesians, Australians and many others. “So I was granted a second chance at life and I make every minute count. “We will always remember those 202 innocent people, most under the age of 40, the youngest just 13 years old. People regularly come to pray and place flowers, candles, or flags with photos of their loved ones.

Every morning Jan Roberts hugs the memorial statue in honour of the dead at Coogee's Dolphins Point. Her son Ben was 28 years old when he died from injuries ...

And Paul Yeo, who had come from Dubbo to remember his brother, former Coogee Dolphin Gerard “Pancakes” Yeo who died in the blasts. Mourners lined up to lay colourful gerberas, and hug the statue one more time. Over two decades her grief had come and gone, like the waves on Coogee Beach, she said. And it means Ben gets a hug,” said Roberts, who moved to Coogee with her husband Alan after their son’s death. Like Dave Byron, whose daughter 15-year-old Chloe died but is remembered in a mural at Bondi Beach. Many family members who lost loved ones nodded in agreement.

On the night of October 12, 2002, Stacey Lee from Geelong was at the Sari Club with her husband, Justin Lee, and his brother, Aaron. They were all killed in the ...

They were just sitting in the bar having a nice time, relaxed and enjoying their holiday." "And it was pretty confronting. It was pretty loud; it sounded like a plane," Woodhams said. they were just freaking out," Woodham said. "It was just really lovely to have and it depicts them as they were. "It was sort of outside under these walkways and they just had all the bodies wrapped in plastic with all ice in between all the bodies that were wrapped up," Woodham said. The smell, it was quite strange, it was like charcoal, it was - I suppose it was burnt skin." it was meant to be," Devlin said. "When I started running back up towards the site and people were passing us coming back to the hotel, some were injured, some were running back ... "So it was so lovely that we knew that they were eight weeks (pregnant) when they died. "(I) grabbed the key, went into my room upstairs and flicked on the light and the TV and then went to go in the bathroom and then that is when the bomb went off. "Stacey said, 'we're going to have a baby' and they were so excited," Devlin said.

The AFL champion survived after a chilling life-and-death sliding doors moment, but his friend was killed in the attack.

“One of them, apparently the air between the explosion and you gets compressed, and he got thrown back 10m-15m without any shrapnel hitting him. “Anyway, we drove about 400m down the road and the bags were piled up in the back of our (van), and we heard this almighty ‘boom’. “We landed in Melbourne and thought, ‘What was that? They were tremendously appreciative of that.” We literally ducked and went ‘What the hell is that?’ Anything that was to be visible was out of sight within three or four seconds. So we said, ‘Oh, you bugger’ (and stayed in the van),” Brereton said.

"That's great evidence when you're putting everything together for the terrorist investigation."

I did four significant things in the years after the Bali bombing," she said. Fifteen seconds later, as those who survived fled outside, an IED was detonated outside the Sari Club. In October 2002, Fitzpatrick was 30 years old and worked in the Australian Federal Police disaster victim identification (DVI) unit. Advertisement

Hundreds gathered Wednesday on the Indonesian resort island of Bali to commemorate 20 years since a twin bombing killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists, ...

Indonesian authorities also suspect him to be the mastermind of several other attacks in the country. But the Australian government has expressed its strong opposition to his possible release. Three years later, another bomb attack the island and killed 20 people. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attended a service in his hometown, Sydney, at the beachside suburb of Coogee. Two decades after the Bali bombings, counterterrorism efforts in the world’s most populous Muslim country remain highly active. Twenty years on, the ache does not dim,” Albanese said. Twenty years ago, an act of malice and calculated depravity robbed the world of 202 lives, including 88 Australians. We stand with the survivors, relatives and families and support them at this time. That night remains seared into the national memories of Indonesians, Australians and many others. “So, I was granted a second chance at life and I make every minute count. “We will always remember those 202 innocent people, most under the age of 40, the youngest just 13 years old. People regularly come to pray and place flowers, candles, or flags with photos of their loved ones.

Oct. 12 marks the 20-year anniversary of the terrorist attack in Bali, Indonesia, when bombs ripped through two nightclubs frequented by Western tourists, ...

She’s the author of Why Terrorists Quit: The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists and the forthcoming Becoming Jihadis: Radicalization and Commitment in Southeast Asia. Compared with other parts of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa, there has been a dramatic decrease in terrorism in Southeast Asia, and many scholars and practitioners are looking for answers why. Those involved in the attack were not trained by al Qaeda either, a feature of many other transnational plots. However, the Bali bombings were plotted and executed by Indonesian members of Jemaah Islamiyah—this was not a transnational attack in the mold of many of the hallmark al Qaeda attacks, which mostly involved more than merely financing. The perpetrator of the bombings was a cell composed of members of It was far better, the main faction believed, to focus on building a devoted core base of followers, spread the group’s message, and make preparations prior to launching any attack on the state. The bombers, who called themselves al Qaeda in the Malay Archipelago, a title pointing to admiration for al Qaeda rather than affiliation, burned out after five years. The plotters of the Bali bombings were a faction within the group who wanted to ignite a civil war between Christians and Muslims and carry out al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s 1998 fatwa that called for violence against Western targets. Indonesia had gone through a major transition of power in the previous four years: the end of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship; the first democratic elections since 1955; and the separation of the military from the police, with the military responsible for preserving Indonesia’s external security and the police its internal security. The Bali plot was poorly executed in basic planning, logistics, and tradecraft. It took the 2002 Bali bombings for Indonesia’s government, intelligence agencies, and security forces to start taking the threat of jihadi terrorism seriously. While Malaysia and Singapore recognized the nature of the threat earlier, after disrupting homegrown plots, Indonesia was slow to acknowledge its seriousness.

This professor of Indonesian politics says recent crackdowns against Islamists in the political sphere may do more harm than good.

"I'm talking about the political dimension … And they've been very successful." for breaching public health orders relating to COVID". It includes people who are involved in education and preaching but who are not violent," he says. "But instead, they focused on normal police investigation processes, and prosecuting people through the open court system. "Why is this a problem in the longer term? "'Foreign infidels' were the primary target [in Bali] … The great majority of prosecutions are successful. They are pro-ISIS, they are not pro-Al Qaeda. "I was stunned … "There are still groups in Indonesia that want to do bombings, but they are linked to ISIS. And it might push more people to say, 'well, the only way we can get change is to resort to violence'," he says.

Film shown to hundreds of Australians and Indonesians at late-night ceremony depicted explosions and their gruesome aftermath.

“You can take comfort from the fact that they failed utterly to do that, because the way in which the two police forces came together ... Both women had suffered burns to about 70% of their bodies. “He’s a terrorist, he should still be in jail … High-ranking officials included the Indonesian home affairs minister, Tito Karnavian – previously the chief of Indonesian national police, and a leading figure in the battle against terrorism – and the chief of the national counter-terrorism agency, attended along with Australian federal police officers. Supported by the Isana Dewata Foundation for Indonesian victims and survivors, it hosted a display of Balinese dancers espousing peace and harmony in Bali and elsewhere. The film, shown beside the monument at a ceremony attended by hundreds of Australians and Indonesians, depicted the catastrophic explosions that tore through the nightclubs, and their aftermath.

Australian families and friends of Bali bombing victims speak of their outrage after graphic footage of the Sari Club blast is shown at a memorial service ...

Indonesian authorities have not commented on the reaction of Australians to the videos played at the memorial. It was unclear whose decision it was to play the videos at what was meant to be a memorial service. Another video shown at the memorial featured extensive footage of Umar Patek, the man who built the explosive devices used in the attacks. Hundreds of people gathered at the site of the blasts to mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. At the service in Kuta, many people said they were shocked at a series of videos prepared by Indonesian National Police and the Indonesian government. Australian families and friends of Bali bombing victims are outraged at a decision to show footage of the Sari Club bombing and the man who built the explosive devices at last night's memorial service at Kuta.

Man putting flowers on remembrance memorial. Relatives of victims of the 2002 Bali bombings pour flowers into the pond during a commemoration ceremony at the ...

We will be formally registering our concerns with the Indonesian authorities," a department spokesperson said. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said its focus on the 20th anniversary was honouring the lives of the victims and the courage and resilience of survivors and their families. Australia has expressed distress and disappointment after a graphic video of the Bali bombings and of the terrorists who plotted the carnage was played at a commemorative event in Indonesia.