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Bombers in Bali attempt to detonate bombs in three different places. The first, a suicide bomb, is detonated in a small nightclub across the road from another nightclub, the Sari Club. A second bomb, a truck filled with explosives parked outside the Sari Club explodes 15 seconds after the first. Less than a minute later, a third bomb detonates outside the United States Consulate. The total death toll is 202.
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00:01October 2002. Hundreds of young tourists enjoy a tropical island resort.
00:07Then, massive explosions rip through the packed nightclubs.
00:12The bombings claim 202 lives.
00:15It's the worst act of terror since 9-11.
00:20Now, using advanced computer simulation, we reveal exactly what happened in the Bali bombings.
00:29Behind every disaster lies a chain of critical events that decides who lives and who dies.
00:36Unravel the fateful moments in those final seconds from disaster.
00:50Southeast Asia. Indonesia. The island of Bali.
01:01Bali's tropical breezes blow in vacationers from all over the world.
01:06The warm Balinese welcome is legendary.
01:10It's the number one holiday destination for Australians.
01:14Reached by a three-hour hop across the Indian Ocean from the west coast.
01:22October 12th, 2002.
01:25Another perfect day dawns in this tropical paradise.
01:30October is one of Bali's busiest months.
01:33And most tourists head for its biggest resort, Kuta Beach.
01:39Three generations of the Kemp family arrived from Perth, Australia.
01:4631-year-old Tracy Ball saved all year for this break, and she's delighted to have a younger sister, Melinda,
01:52along.
01:54Tracy's daughter, five-year-old Brianna, brims with excitement.
01:58It's her first overseas trip.
02:02And grandma and grandpa Kemp will be close by in the apartment next door.
02:10The family deserves this special vacation.
02:14Four years ago, Tracy's husband Peter, a police officer, was killed on duty.
02:21The tragedy left Tracy a little anxious about being away from home.
02:26It was always in the back of my mind that you just always have to be careful no matter what
02:29you do, wherever you go.
02:31And especially going to a different country, you don't know exactly, you know, what's going to happen.
02:39Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, with 210 million followers.
02:45But on the island of Bali, Hindus outnumber Muslims by almost 20 to 1.
02:51The two faiths have lived in harmony for centuries.
02:57Abdulaziz, alias Samudra, performs his ritual cleansing for the first call to prayer.
03:02He's a devout Muslim, but his motives are far from the non-violent teachings of the Islamic faith.
03:09He's a homegrown Indonesian terrorist in Bali to command a group of fanatics intent on causing death and destruction.
03:2012 o'clock, midday.
03:23Perth, Australia.
03:2420 young men from a local football team head out to Bali.
03:30This is footage of their trip.
03:3525-year-old Ben Clohessi and his teammates are looking forward to two weeks of sun, sea and socialising.
03:42100 different libidos, basically all pumped, ready to go.
03:46As Ben and his friends arrive at Bali's international airport,
03:53at a rented house 11 kilometers away, terrorist mastermind Samudra calls a strategy meeting.
04:00The five men present are part of an Islamic terrorist network extending across Southeast Asia.
04:07It's called Jamar Islamiyah, or J-I.
04:12And hundreds of its members have been trained by Al-Qaeda.
04:19In 2001, Al-Qaeda moved several of its training camps from Afghanistan to secret locations across Indonesia.
04:28Their Academy of Terror produced a new generation of Indonesian recruits.
04:34They've been linked to a series of bombings and attacks in the region, killing dozens of people.
04:447.30 p.m.
04:47Saturday night.
04:49And sisters Tracy and Melinda are looking forward to an evening of fun.
04:53Their parents volunteer to look after Brianna.
04:58When Tracy's husband died, Melinda immediately moved in with her to help raise the little girl.
05:03The sisters are inseparable.
05:06We did become best friends, which was awesome.
05:08She became very much someone that I depended on nearly every day.
05:13As little Brianna sleeps,
05:16Samudra's terrorists prepare their deadly weapons.
05:20Tonight, they'll bring Al-Qaeda's global jihad to Western tourists in Bali.
05:28They plan a symbolic explosion outside the U.S. consulate, northeast of Kuta Beach.
05:33But their main bombing targets are two popular night spots.
05:37Paddy's Bar and the Sari Club on Legian Street.
05:42They load a white Mitsubishi van with one ton of explosives.
05:499.30 p.m.
05:52As the sun goes down,
05:53Kuta Beach lights up with neon as the club scene comes to life.
05:58At the heart of the action is the resort's buzzing central strip, Legian Street.
06:03It's where sisters Melinda and Tracy are heading for their girls' night out.
06:11But it's the terrorists' destination too.
06:15Three of them drive the explosive-packed van south towards Kuta Beach.
06:24Melinda and Tracy arrive at one of Legian Street's most popular hotspots, the Sari Club.
06:32It's already hopping.
06:35Nearly 350 young men and women, mostly Australians, cram inside.
06:4410.52 p.m.
06:47The terrorists leave the northern suburbs and enter Kuta Beach Resort.
06:54They have to drive slowly. The van is weighed down with its deadly cargo.
07:01The Australian footballers roll up at the Sari Club.
07:0525-year-old Ben Clohessi is ready for his first taste of Bali's nightlife.
07:10They park themselves at the bar and start drinking.
07:1511.01 p.m.
07:18The terrorist's white van reaches Legian Street.
07:24The three men each have an assigned task.
07:27One of the men jumps on the back of a motorbike.
07:30His mission? To detonate the bomb outside the U.S. Consulate.
07:37Now the explosive-packed van stops right outside the Sari Club.
07:41A second terrorist jumps out and heads for his target, Paddy's bar.
07:47He makes his way inside through the crowd of Western tourists.
07:58Across the road in the Sari Club, Melinda persuades Tracy to stay for one more song.
08:07Outside, the van is creating a traffic jam along the one-way street.
08:12But the driver isn't going anywhere.
08:19Then, suddenly...
08:24A terrifying explosion rips through Legian Street.
08:28Inside the Sari Club, nobody is hurt.
08:32Some people even think the noise is some sort of celebration.
08:36I just thought it was a bit of fireworks.
08:37How happy we all were and excited that we were.
08:40You know, you never thought anything bad could happen.
08:43But sisters Tracy and Melinda are in an open-air part of the club.
08:47They can see a column of smoke rising from Paddy's bar across the street.
08:54Dozens of people spill out of the club onto Legian Street to see what's going on.
08:59It brings them even closer to the explosive-filled van still parked in the street outside.
09:18People partying in the Sari Club in Bali's Kuta Beach resort hear a huge bang outside.
09:28Many of them flock onto Legian Street to see what's happened.
09:39It brings them within meters of the terrorists' explosive-packed white Mitsubishi van.
09:4715 seconds after the first blast.
09:54A second, colossal explosion rips through Legian Street.
09:59It kills dozens outside and inside the Sari Club instantly.
10:03Within seconds, a raging inferno traps hundreds.
10:09Flames also engulfed victims trapped in vehicles caught in the traffic jam.
10:16Home video footage captures the chaos as frantic bystanders run to escape.
10:22Exploding fuel tanks add to the panic.
10:32Inside the club, the party atmosphere is transformed into a scene of carnage and devastation.
10:39Survivors desperately search for a way out of the flames and choking smoke.
10:5031-year-old widowed mother Tracy Ball is buried under a stack of rubble.
10:57She feels people walking over her as they rush to escape the inferno.
11:04Desperately, Tracy digs herself out of the debris.
11:07But there's no sign of her younger sister, Melinda.
11:11She was nowhere to be seen and there was just fire and screaming from all directions.
11:19So at the same time, I'm screaming, I have to find you, I can't find you.
11:22Melinda!
11:24Footballer Ben Clohesi finds he can't move.
11:29Heavy timber beams and debris pin him to the ground.
11:34Flames race through the thatched roof above.
11:37He thinks it's about to collapse on top of him.
11:43Then, drags himself out from under the rubble.
11:47And starts to search for his teammates amidst the carnage.
11:52Outside, it looks like a war zone.
11:57Fierce fires spread through Legian Street.
12:00Buildings are ablaze over an area 120 meters wide.
12:05Burned and maimed survivors lurch out of the devastated buildings.
12:11Many local people rush to help survivors.
12:14One of the first on the scene is Kuta Beach traffic chief, Agust Bambang.
12:23I saw dozens of victims exiting and running outside of the club, away from the engulfing flames.
12:30Some were shouting, saying, it's so hot, it's so hot, please help us get to a hospital quickly.
12:39Bambang orchestrates rescue efforts to help the victims.
12:42Among those killed and injured in the blast, dozens of his fellow Balinese.
12:49There were not only foreign tourists, but also local people from Denpasar, who came to Kuta for the weekend.
13:00Secondly, there were a lot of drivers waiting to drive their customers back to their hotels.
13:08There were also a lot of small traders.
13:17Inside the Sari Club, footballer Ben Clohesi is also helping the injured.
13:23He leads two survivors to the only area of the Blazing Club that looks free of flames.
13:31But he finds that a four and a half meter high wall blocks their path.
13:41He summons all his strength and starts to heave people to safety.
13:48It's amazing what a human body can do in time of need.
13:59While survivors head for the only part of the club not in flames,
14:0331-year-old widowed mother Tracy is still desperately searching for her missing sister, Melinda.
14:11As flames rain down from the burning roof, Tracy thinks of her five-year-old daughter Brianna
14:16and realizes she must make a terrible choice.
14:20Does she continue to search for her sister and best friend Melinda?
14:24Or escape while she still can?
14:26What if I get out and she's here waiting for me to find her and she burns to death?
14:32How do I tell Mum and Dad that I left her behind?
14:36But then I thought, what will Mum and Dad tell Brianna when I don't come back?
14:46Explosions have torn through the packed bars and clubs on Leggy Ann Street
14:50in Bali's once peaceful Cooter Beach area.
14:52But inside the blazing Sari Club, 31-year-old widowed mother Tracy Ball is still searching for her missing sister
14:59Melinda.
15:03She's losing hope and the choking smoke is making it harder and harder to breathe.
15:10If she stays, she'll die, leaving her five-year-old daughter motherless.
15:21She makes her decision.
15:24Tracy heads for the club's south side.
15:28A wall has been shattered by the blast, but it's still two meters high.
15:37Thinking fast, she finds a beam to use as a makeshift ladder and clambers to the top of the two
15:42-meter-high wall.
15:45She escapes the blaze just as it engulfs the area behind her.
15:58Tracy makes it as far as the curb outside the club.
16:05All around her, rescuers struggle to help people amid the chaos.
16:14Then, emerging out of the mayhem of Leggy Ann Street, Tracy's father appears.
16:20He heard the blast from the apartment and raced to the club to look for his daughters.
16:26My dad came in that instant and found me and said,
16:31Tracy, oh my God, where's Melinda?
16:34Her father's unexpected appearance gives Tracy new hope.
16:38Perhaps he can find Melinda.
16:44But many people are still inside the burning sari club.
16:49One of them is footballer Ben Clohesi.
16:54He's heaved countless people up the north wall to waiting hands and safety.
17:01Ben doesn't know whether all his teammates made it out.
17:06But the heat is now unbearable.
17:09He has to go.
17:11But there's no one left to help him.
17:13He must get over the four-and-a-half-meter-high wall on his own.
17:17Because the fire was coming that quickly, you know that if you miss it, that, you know, you're gone.
17:24It's Ben's only hope.
17:26He summons all his strength and jumps.
17:31Somehow, Ben reaches the top and scrambles over.
17:4531-year-old widowed mother, Tracy, waits for her father to return with word of Sister Melinda.
17:52After five minutes, her dad comes back.
17:55But it's bad news.
18:00I wasn't prepared for him to not come back with her.
18:04I was expecting him to come back, you know, have, you know, her hand in his hand and saying,
18:10here's Tracy, see, everything's okay.
18:16One a.m., nearly two hours since the blast.
18:20The disaster overwhelms the emergency services.
18:24Over 300 injured survivors must make their way to local hospitals and clinics any way they can.
18:30In cars, vans, even on the back of motorcycles.
18:39Tracy ends up in a tiny local hospital.
18:41She's suffered third-degree burns, mostly to her back.
18:45She's alive, but needs urgent surgery.
18:49Despite staying in the blazing club to help people, Ben Clohessi escapes with only minor burns.
18:56Hundreds of people are missing.
18:59Among them, Tracy's 25-year-old sister, Melinda.
19:05Her distraught father, Ron Kemp, scours every clinic and hospital in Kuta Beach.
19:17But he's losing hope.
19:25By 3 a.m., ambulances arrive with the last of the survivors.
19:32But he still has no news of his daughter, Melinda.
19:40Many of those listed as missing are now confirmed dead.
19:51The search takes him to a small private hospital.
19:58There, he finds Melinda.
20:03She's alive.
20:06The blast knocked her out, and she has no idea how she escaped the club.
20:12Miraculously, she only has minor injuries.
20:175 a.m., as Tracy is wheeled out of surgery.
20:22The sisters are finally reunited.
20:26They looked over to me, and she's just in tears.
20:29She's like, oh, my God, you're okay, kind of thing, you know.
20:33It's not really words said, just looks.
20:35Even now, it makes me cry, because I could then relax and realise that everything was going to be okay.
20:48Over the next three days, Indonesian rescuers continue to pull bodies from the rubble.
20:55The death count eventually reaches 202.
21:00Victims come from 22 different countries.
21:02But Australia is hit hardest of all, with 88 dead.
21:11Three days later, Ben Clohessy and his surviving teammates return to Perth, Australia.
21:18Of the 20 young men who flew out, only 13 are going home alive.
21:25The remains of the other seven will be returned to their families.
21:34News of the disaster shocks the world.
21:37Mysterious, deadly bombings tonight in Indonesia.
21:40At least 50 people have been killed tonight, many of them tourists.
21:43The largest number of foreigners killed and injured in the Bali attacks were Australian.
21:49It's been just 13 months since 9-11.
21:52Many suspect that this is the work of Al-Qaeda.
21:56But why is the peaceful island of Bali a target?
22:02Investigators must sift through the debris to discover who are the killers that brought hell to this heaven on earth.
22:11Now, by rewinding the events of that fateful day and by going deep into the investigation,
22:16we can reveal what really happened that night in Bali.
22:21Advanced computer simulation will take us, where no camera can go, into the heart of the disaster zone.
22:31A new day reveals the extent of the devastation.
22:35The damage zone stretches across 28 hectares.
22:42The Indonesian National Police appoints General Emade Pastika as its chief investigator.
22:48But Pastika knows that he has neither the manpower nor the forensic experience to investigate a disaster on this scale.
22:56We understand and realize now that our technology is very far left behind.
23:05Pastika turns to the Australian Federal Police, or AFP, in Canberra for help.
23:14The force puts forward AFP veteran Graham Ashton as joint investigator.
23:21Within 24 hours, Ashton and his team of 140 experts head for Bali.
23:28Senior forensic chemist David Royds flies out with the team.
23:33Also on board the plane are several people desperate for news of their loved ones.
23:40You know, you're full of anticipation, you're nervous, you're excited, and you're with a team, and you really feel fired
23:47up.
23:47And suddenly you realize that at the front of the plane there's two or three other people.
23:52And they were actually relatives going over to search for their children.
23:59It was a really emotional experience.
24:07As the Indonesian and Australian teams swing into action, they have no clues as to who caused the explosions.
24:16But detectives based at Bali's police HQ soon get their first lead.
24:20A report from the U.S. Consulate, 11 kilometers northeast of Legian Street.
24:28The consul claims he heard firecrackers going off less than a minute after the Legian Street blast.
24:37But what the forensic team find in front of the building tells a more sinister story.
24:42A wrecked stretch of curve and the remains of a mobile phone.
24:48Both test positive for the high explosive TNT.
24:54The evidence suggests a small device remotely detonated by phone.
25:00Western consulates and ebuses are a favored target of terrorists.
25:06Investigators believe that this has all the hallmarks of a deliberate terrorist attack.
25:11Its aim, not to kill, but to tell the world that the explosions in Bali's nightclubs are a new front
25:18in the terror war against the West.
25:24Eyewitness reports revealed that as well as the U.S. Consulate bomb, there were two explosions in Legian Street.
25:31A smaller one inside a night spot called Paddy's Bar.
25:37And one outside the Sari Club.
25:47The investigation team start to comb the 28 hectare blast zone for evidence that might lead to the killers.
25:56It's a monumental task. Even the tiniest piece of debris might provide the crucial lead.
26:04It could take months.
26:08And after just two weeks, there's a major setback.
26:14Local officials are in a tough spot.
26:17They're under pressure from Kuta Beach's predominantly Hindu residents to clear the blast site.
26:23These local Hindus believe that the ghosts of blast victims haunt the area.
26:30They want to hold a ceremony to purify the site and release the troubled spirits of the dead.
26:37But it means scooping up all the rubble and casting it into the sea.
26:42The officials tell the Australian and Indonesian investigators their time is up.
26:48The bulldozers are wanting to clean the street up.
26:51So if you want to get any more samples, you've got, you know, two hours.
26:54Clearing the blast zone will destroy crucial evidence.
27:00If the investigators can't stop the bulldozers, the murderers of 202 innocent holidaymakers and Balinese might never be caught.
27:15Explosions have ripped apart the Balinese beach resort of Kuta Beach.
27:21Now forensic work is brought to a standstill when Hindu residents pressure local officials to send bulldozers to the blast
27:28site.
27:30They believe that only by clearing the debris into the sea can they release the spirits of the dead.
27:39But that will destroy crucial forensic evidence and could prevent investigators from ever catching the murderers.
27:48Behind the scenes, Indonesian and Australian investigators alike negotiate for more time.
27:55They argue that Bali's biggest industry, tourism, is at stake.
28:00Catching the people is as important as clearing this crime scene because if we don't catch them, tourists won't come
28:06back.
28:08After a day of argument, they finally strike a deal.
28:11The investigators get just two more weeks to scour the site for clues.
28:17After that, the bulldozers will be back.
28:20Now the team have just 14 days to complete a task that would normally take months.
28:27Meanwhile, detectives interview hundreds of eyewitnesses.
28:30Many claim they saw a white Mitsubishi van parked outside the Sari Club just before the explosion.
28:36It drew attention because it caused a huge traffic jam along the one-way Legian street.
28:44There's now a 60 centimeter deep crater where the van once stood.
28:48And it's at the epicenter of the blast zone.
28:56It's clear to investigators that a bomb inside the van destroyed the Sari Club.
29:07But who owned the van?
29:11To find out, investigators need to locate the remains of the van itself.
29:17It won't be easy.
29:18The van would have been blown to bits in the blast.
29:22And the explosions destroyed 19 vehicles and 32 motorbikes on Legian street.
29:30Forensic experts must examine thousands of twisted remains piece by piece.
29:35Of course.
29:44Then, after four days of searching, a team member makes a remarkable discovery.
29:53Across the street from the Sari Club is a two-story bank.
29:57On its roof, he finds a piece of chassis one and a half meters long.
30:03By analyzing the impact damage, the experts can work out how far it was from the explosion.
30:09The tests prove the piece of chassis is from the white van.
30:17The scientists scour every centimeter of it.
30:21And find something stamped into the metal.
30:25It could be the van's registration number, a crucial lead to its owner.
30:33But it's completely illegible.
30:36The terrorists filed down the number so that it couldn't be traced.
30:44The team's first big find ends in disappointment.
30:48We were thinking, what a great head start if they'd been stupid enough to leave the engine numbers on the
30:54chassis block.
30:55So we thought, oh, well, they're not that stupid then.
30:59Well, we're back to the hardest log again.
31:02But the joint Indonesian and Australian team refuse to give up.
31:07They try a different tag.
31:09If they can discover what the bomb was made of, they may be able to trace people who bought large
31:14quantities of the relevant chemicals.
31:16They focus on the chemical fingerprints of the crime scene.
31:24But there's a problem.
31:26The explosions severed water mains so that any chemical residue was washed away down gutters and drains.
31:32Then firemen doused the area with high pressure hoses.
31:38Investigators can't find any trace of suspicious chemicals.
31:41Then one of the team has a bright idea.
31:45Where else can we look creatively to try and find these samples?
31:49So one of the guys really cleverly just looked up.
31:53The blast could have blown chemicals hundreds of meters from the scene, leaving traces way above ground level.
32:01It may be their only hope of a lead on the bomb's makeup.
32:05The team races to swab the leaves of trees, signposts, even telephone lines within 60 meters of the explosion.
32:13The forensic team painstakingly tests hundreds of samples.
32:19We were analyzing as much as we could, as fast as we could, and we were getting negative results, negative
32:24results, negative results.
32:25The heat is on.
32:27In just 14 days, the bulldozers will clear the site into the ocean.
32:31The team tests over 2,000 samples.
32:35Then, finally, their persistence pays off.
32:40A leaf from a tree inside the zone supplies a crucial clue.
32:45It tests positive for potassium chlorate.
32:49It's a commercially available chemical found in industrial cleaning material.
32:54And it's a classic ingredient of a typical homemade terrorist bomb.
33:02The team now knows what caused the blast that demolished the Sari Club.
33:06The terrorists detonated a bomb made of homemade explosive.
33:12Packed into the rear of a Mitsubishi L300 van.
33:21It's a promising lead.
33:23Detectives on the team start to track the purchase and delivery parts of large quantities of potassium chlorate.
33:31The hunt is on.
33:36Time is running out.
33:39At the blast zone, the forensic team need more evidence before the bulldozers return.
33:45And they've only scratched the surface.
33:50They must still find out what happened inside Paddy's bar where 20 people died.
33:56Eyewitnesses report a separate, smaller explosion here, seconds before the Sari Club blast.
34:04The forensic team works day and night to search through the mountain of debris in the ruin club.
34:10Then, Chief Forensic Scientist David Royds spots something.
34:16My eyes fell upon this little bit of copper wire.
34:18It was no more than five centimeters long.
34:22It just jumped out at me like that was pure gold.
34:26Royds suspects that it could be part of a bomb planted by terrorists inside Paddy's bar.
34:32He runs tests on it and finds traces of the high explosive TNT.
34:39He concludes that it is a piece of bomb detonating wire.
34:46To find the epicenter of the blast, Royds devises an ingenious experiment.
34:53Tracing back from the explosion's impact points, he creates a spider web of string.
34:58Where the strings intersect reveals the exact place where the bomb went off.
35:04It's one meter off the ground.
35:07It raises a disturbing possibility.
35:13So at this stage, we started to think that this could well be a suicide bomber.
35:20On the ceiling, directly above the blast epicenter, Royds finds a cluster of human tissue.
35:28He takes a batch of samples and conducts DNA tests.
35:35The DNA all belongs to one person.
35:39The team also finds fragments of fabric radiating out around the epicenter.
35:45They're an exact match for fibers found on the detonating wire.
35:54It's the first suicide bombing in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War.
36:04Investigators now know exactly what caused the three explosions on the night of October the 12th.
36:09But they're no closer to catching the bombers.
36:15Detectives have been unable to trace any bulk purchases of potassium chlorate.
36:21And there are no further leads on who owned the bomb van.
36:25The hunt for the bombers stalks.
36:30With the terrorists still at large, people across Southeast Asia must face the prospect of further attacks.
36:41The chief Indonesian investigator, General Imaid Pastika, refuses to admit defeat.
36:49Six days before the investigators' deadline, Pastika orders his team to re-examine the 1.5-metre section of chassis
36:57from the exploded van.
37:00The terrorists covered their tracks by filing down the vehicle's registration number.
37:05But he hopes that perhaps some other clue was missed.
37:12Then Pastika, a devout Hindu, goes to a temple to pray for a breakthrough.
37:22During his devotions, he gets a call.
37:27It's one of his deputies.
37:30Imagine him sitting there praying and his cell phone goes off.
37:32General, where are you? Are you not in the office?
37:34And he said, no, I'm praying for the success of the investigation.
37:37He said, oh, you must be hitting the right note then, General, because I've just found a number on the
37:42chassis rails.
37:45When the team re-examined the piece of chassis recovered from the bomb van, they found a piece of metal
37:50four centimeters long welded onto it.
37:53When they remove it, they discover the vehicle identification number.
38:03The terrorists picked the wrong country to buy their bomb vehicle.
38:07They filed off the two usual identifying numbers, but obviously didn't realize that commercial vehicles in Indonesia have a third
38:15number stamped on the chassis.
38:19One of the van's previous owners welded a support strut to the chassis that covered it up.
38:24The terrorists didn't even know it was there.
38:29It's an astonishing breakthrough.
38:37Investigators search through vehicle records.
38:41They quickly track down all seven previous owners of the van.
38:47Including the last person to buy it.
38:52His name is Amrozi.
38:55He's already known to authorities as a member of Jemaah Islamiyah, a terrorist network linked to Al-Qaeda.
39:07Amrozi is still at the address on the island of Java where the van is registered.
39:14On November 5th, 2002, Indonesian police arrest him.
39:20Amrozi confesses and reveals what he felt when he first learnt of the deaths and devastation the bombs inflicted.
39:29I was very happy. How can I describe it?
39:33It was like when I was still a bachelor trying for a girl and you finally get to meet her.
39:37It was that sort of excitement.
39:39But this was even better.
39:44Within weeks, police arrest several of Amrozi's accomplices.
39:49Among them, Samudra, the mastermind behind the plot.
39:55The men confessed to the cold-blooded murder of 202 innocent people.
40:04The arrests are a triumph for the joint investigation.
40:07But disturbing questions need to be answered.
40:11Did Western intelligence agencies know that a major attack by Amrozi's group was imminent?
40:17And did governments warn tourists in Bali that they were a target for terrorist attack?
40:30A joint Australian and Indonesian investigation leads to the arrest of several of the Bali bombers.
40:39Thirty-four Jamal Islamiyah terrorists are tried and found guilty.
40:43Three are sentenced to death.
40:45The rest receive prison sentences.
40:51Their confessions allowed the investigation team to put together the missing pieces of the puzzle.
40:57It reveals what really happened on the night of the Bali bombings.
41:02Why terror came to paradise and left holiday makers and local people seconds from disaster.
41:11December 2001.
41:12A J.I. plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Singapore is foiled by police.
41:17A month later, the group changes its strategy of targeting Western embassies.
41:23Now its followers will attack soft targets, bars and clubs frequented by Western tourists.
41:34Eight months on, in Bali, chief plotter Samudra scouts for targets on Legian Street.
41:44He chooses two of the most crowded tourist hangouts, the Sari Club and Paddy's Bar.
41:55October 6th, six days to disaster.
41:59In the rented house in Denpasar, the J.I. terrorists start making the Sari Club bomb.
42:06They pack the suicide bomber vest with one kilogram of TNT and make the device intended for the U.S.
42:12consulate.
42:18Two hours to disaster.
42:21The terrorists have loaded the Mitsubishi van.
42:27It now contains one ton of potassium chloride mixture, packed into 12 filing cabinets connected by detonating cord.
42:39Three minutes to disaster.
42:42Thirty meters from the Sari Club, Ali Imran gets out of the van.
42:48One minute to disaster.
42:51The first suicide bomber, a young Indonesian known as Feri, walks into Paddy's Bar.
42:58When he reaches the packed dance floor, he hits the detonator.
43:08Just 15 seconds later, a second suicide bomber, 24-year-old Arneson, hits the switch on the van bomb.
43:32Forty seconds later, the terrorists use a phone to detonate the device,
43:38planted some three hours earlier outside the U.S. consulate.
43:43It announces to the world that the Bali bombings are an attack on America and its allies.
43:53Australian tourists, Melinda and Tracey, were lucky to survive.
43:57But back home in Perth, they wonder how the unconscious Melinda escaped the blazing Sari Club.
44:05I thought, well, my fingernails are in perfect condition.
44:09I don't have any burns or lacerations or anything to my feet.
44:14I wondered, how did I get out?
44:17The question spreads through Perth, Australia.
44:21Who saved the girl in the pink dress?
44:24Word reaches 25-year-old footballer Ben Clohesi.
44:28He recalls helping an unconscious blonde girl over the wall and realises it was Melinda.
44:34He visits Melinda to tell her the story.
44:38Meeting Ben was just like meeting, you know, a saint.
44:43He had saved my life, you know.
44:45And it's so hard to describe, you know.
44:49How do you feel when you meet someone that saved your life?
44:54Many others owe their lives to the brave actions of traffic chief Agus Bambang.
44:59As a Muslim, he cannot understand how the terrorists could claim to act in the name of Islam.
45:07Okay, if I were to ask them a question, I would probably knock at the door of their heart
45:13and ask them, what would happen if the dead, burnt victim turned out to be their wives?
45:19Or if the burnt dead victim turned out to be Amrosi's mother?
45:23Iman Samudra's mother?
45:25Or Amrosi's wife?
45:27Or Iman Samudra's wife?
45:29Burnt like that?
45:31How would they feel?
45:38Several Western governments, including Australia,
45:41admitted to receiving intelligence before the bombings
45:44that J.I. was planning to attack Westerners in Southeast Asia.
45:49The U.S. and Australia issued warnings to its tourists to be cautious when traveling around the world.
45:55But Australians who lost loved ones want to know why they weren't warned of the specific danger of travel to
46:02Indonesia.
46:05An Australian Senate inquiry finds that the government should have warned its travelers
46:10that they might now be actively targeted.
46:2030 days after the bombings, investigators keep their promise to hand over the crime scene to the Hindu community.
46:28The ocean waves receive the spirits of the dead.
46:36The investigation of the Bali bombings accelerated intelligence gathering on Jamar Islamiyah by an estimated three years.
46:45The U.S., Japan and Australia now work together to help Southeast Asian countries monitor and combat the continuing threats
46:54of terror in the region.
47:08You
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