Zero Hour (2004–…): Season 2, Episode 1 - Bali Bombing - full transcript

NARRATOR: Just after 11:00
p.m. on the 12th of October 2002,

a coordinated suicide attack
devastated two nightclubs

- on the Indonesian island of Bali.
- (HORN HONKING)

(EXPLOSION)

- (ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
- (GLASS SHATTERING)

RICHARD: People are burned everywhere.

I just don't believe what
happened here tonight.

NARRATOR: 202 lives were destroyed

- and countless others wrecked...
- (SIRENS WAILING)

...in an indiscriminate act of
revenge against young westerners.

This film reconstructs the
hour before the bombs explode.



As each minute passes,

the new faces of post 9/11 terror emerge.

The killers close to home

who seek to imitate their heroes
by blasting their way to Paradise.

Ali Imron, a 33-year-old religious
student, prepares to make a delivery.

Within the next hour, he and
a small group of extremists

will have murdered and maimed hundreds.

At a safe house well away from
Bali's thriving clubs and bars,

Ali Imron collects the
first of three bombs.

(SPEAKING MALAY)

He will later drive two suicide bombers

and a van carrying more
than a ton of explosives

to within a few meters of their targets.

The attack will begin with a
symbolic gesture against America.



It will be followed by a terrorist outrage

intended to be Southeast Asia's 9/11.

(DANCE MUSIC PLAYING)

NARRATOR: It's Saturday night
in Kuta, the tourist capital of Bali.

Large groups of Australian
rugby and football teams

add to the surfers and
backpackers from Europe

who are starting to crowd into
Kuta's largest nightspot, the Sari Club.

(MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)

HANABETH: The club's full, it's
pumping. Everyone's just on holiday,

being silly, having a ball, and
you know, just this crazy throng.

There's a smell of the
cigarettes, and the beer,

and the music is just like pumping, just
holiday feeling. It was great, you know.

Marc, my boyfriend, of
two and a half years...

It's the first time Marc
had ever been to Bali.

It was my 20-something trip, so I was
just really happy to show him around.

SIMON: I was in Bali for
our end of season football trip.

Straight away lots of the
guys bought a drink and went in

and started dancing on the dance
floor and just having a really good time.

We're an amateur group,
from the Kingsley Football Club.

90% of the boys, it was
their first trip ever on a plane.

And it was definitely
their first trip to Bali.

And they were blown away.

SOPHIE: The place was packed,
and it was a happening place.

I could see... Look around,
beautiful rugby players were there

and, um... And obviously
the girls around it too.

You know, my husband and I were
probably the oldest ones in there.

POLLY: Any foreigner in
Bali, used to go to the Sari Club

or Paddy's Bar.

Um, and in fact my first kiss
with Dan was in Paddy's Bar.

I met Dan by the rugby pitch

and fell in love and got
married two years later.

We shouldn't really have gone back, because
we'd just come back from our honeymoon,

but, uh, you know,
it's one of those things.

It's where we'd met, it where we got...

We were engaged there
as well the year later.

So it was kind of like our place.

PETER: We were actually on
our way down to the Sari Club

when we had a change
of heart and we decided to

go across the road, er, which
was at Paddy's nightclub.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

It's a two story place, so
downstairs probably 500, 600.

Upstairs about 300 or 400, I suppose.

Uh, there's dance floors... Dance
floors upstairs and downstairs.

(DANCE MUSIC PLAYING)

As we walked in, uh, we
noticed a mate of mine Jason

noticed a couple of girls at a table,

and we sort of parked ourselves there

and it was pretty much... You
know, pretty close to the bar.

NARRATOR: In a wealthy
suburb 10 kilometers north of Kuta,

the American consulate
has closed for the day.

Ali Imron arrives with bomb number one.

500 grams of TNT, a detonator
wired to a mobile phone

that will trigger the explosive

and another ingredient designed
simply to add insult, human excrement.

-The bomb is small. -(BEEPS)

When it's detonated in 55 minutes time,

it will cause no significant damage

and will only slightly injure a passer-by.

But it will be the first in
a sequence of explosions

that will end in mass murder.

(CAR HONKS)

NARRATOR: At a rented apartment in Kuta,

Imam Samudra, the so-called Field
Commander for the Bali bombing,

waits for news of Ali Imron's
return from the American consulate.

In the next 50 minutes,

Bali will be the first
place in Southeast Asia

to suffer that most brutal
expression of religious extremism,

a suicide attack.

So where did the order for
the assault on Bali come from?

And why?

Al-Qaeda has long been the prime suspect.

But 4,000 miles away in Afghanistan

its power base has been shattered
by the American-backed invasion.

Without a safe haven,

al-Qaeda's ability to coordinate
attacks around the globe

is now thought to be seriously degraded.

DR. CHALK: There's no indication
that al-Qaeda was ever able to

re-establish a firm territorial
beachhead in any other part of the world,

um, that was akin to
what it had in Afghanistan.

And what it had in Afghanistan
was the critical element

that allowed it to operate in
that very structured manner.

NARRATOR: The trail to
the heart of the Bali conspiracy

begins in a hill town in central Java,

Indonesia's most populous island.

Two months before the Bali bombing,

text messages summon the
key conspirators to a meeting.

Ali Imron is the youngest of three brothers

who will play a major part in the attacks.

(CELL PHONE BEEPING)

Abdul Matin is a second-hand car dealer

and a trained bomb builder.

Idris Al Gembrot works as a mechanic,

but has moonlighted as a jewel thief.

Ali Imron's older brothers,
Mukhlas and Amrozi,

together with the bomb
technician Abdul Matin

and Idris the gopher,

rendezvous with the
commander of the bombings,

Imam Samudra.

(SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

NARRATOR: Detailed information
about what happens at this meeting

will later come from
the bombers themselves,

all of them affiliated with
a secretive organization

known as Jama Islamia,
or Islamic Community.

LEIGH: The interesting thing
about the Jama Islamia bombers

was that they all confessed,
every one of them.

There was not one
person that didn't confess.

As far as they're concerned
you know, the... The, uh...

The fatwa issued by Osama
Bin Laden gives them authority.

You know, they've got
nothing to be apologetic for.

NARRATOR: The most complete
confession comes from Ali Imron,

the only bomber to express
remorse for his actions.

(SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

(ALI IMRON SPEAKING MALAY)

NARRATOR: In the weeks before the attack

Samudra himself gathered
intelligence on likely targets.

He and Ali Imron scouted
Kuta's busiest street

and found what Samudra
thought were Americans.

(ALI IMRON SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

LEIGH: They believe they
were blowing up Americans.

Because normally we'd have a, uh...

American task force would call into Bali

about every three or four months on leave.

The fact is, that if they'd asked anybody

they would have found out
there were no Americans in there.

They were many Australians
and British and, you know...

But from their perspective they look

and there's short hair, uh,
young fit men, lots of them.

They know nothing about rugby.

So they go, "Okay, it's the American navy."

(SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

NARRATOR: At the heart of the
conspiracy are Samudra and Mukhlas,

both of them religious firebrands.

LEIGH: Imam Samudra
is just a complete zealot.

Believes utterly in the fact that
Indonesia has to become a Muslim state.

(CONTINUES SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

LEIGH: Mukhlas, I think,
cleverer than Imam Samudra.

Uh, more of a thinker.

You know, very radical
but more of a thinker.

NARRATOR: It was
Mukhlas' extremist eloquence

that inspired his younger brothers

Amrozi and Ali Imron
to join the conspiracy.

Mukhlas will travel to Bali
to organize the bombing,

but as a senior figure in Jama Islamia

he is considered too valuable
to be caught in a police dragnet

and will leave the island in
the days before the attack.

In the absence of Mukhlas,

Samudra would be the
commander on the ground.

(SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

NARRATOR: He allocates
jobs to each of the conspirators.

Amrozi would be responsible
for buying and adapting a van

that would carry the ton of explosives.

He'd also disguise it,

altering the vehicle identification
number on the engine block.

Ali Imron would be the coordinator,

responsible for making sure the
bombs are delivered to their targets.

Idris would handle the bills
for transport and safe houses,

settling everything in cash.

(SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

NARRATOR: Abdul Matin would help
build more than a ton of high explosives,

using TNT and a mixture of
weedkiller, sulfur and aluminum.

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

NARRATOR: The original plan for Bali
was to attack exactly a year after 9/11.

Was this yet more evidence
of an al-Qaeda connection,

or simply a desire to emulate
what was, to the conspirators,

an heroic act?

(SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

NARRATOR: So far at least, a proven
link back to al-Qaeda hasn't been found,

either in planning or finance.

DR. CHALK: There's a lot of speculation
as to where the money came from,

but I haven't come
across any verified reports

that show this

very clear paper trail leading back,

if you like, to... Eventually to al-Qaeda.

(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)

NARRATOR: In the Bali bombers' safe house,

two intensely nervous figures
go through the mental preparation

to end the lives of hundreds of people,

including their own.

(READING IN ARABIC)

NARRATOR: With just 45
minutes to go before the explosions,

Idris keeps a close watch
on the two would-be martyrs

for any sign that
they're losing their nerve.

Iqbal will wear a vest with
a kilo of TNT packed into it

and walk into Paddy's Bar.

Jimi will park the van
outside the Sari Club,

wait for Iqbal to detonate his explosive,

and then push the trigger
on a huge incendiary bomb.

(CAR HONKING)

At his apartment four kilometers away,

Samudra waits for news that the
attacks have been set in motion.

(CELL PHONE BEEPING)

(PHONE RINGING)

(SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

(INDISTINCT READING)

NARRATOR: For all their
planning, the Bali bomb conspirators

have made a number of elementary mistakes.

(ENGINE REVVING)

Jimi, the intended
suicide driver of the van,

has a significant handicap.

He can't drive.

(SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

NARRATOR: But that might not have mattered.

A few days earlier,

the bomb builders came close to
ending their mission prematurely.

Dragging a cabinet loaded
with explosives across a floor

covered in spilled chemicals

produced a not entirely surprising result.

(EXPLOSION)

(GLASS SHATTERING)

(SPEAKING MALAY)

(ALI IMRON SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

NARRATOR: 45 minutes before the explosions,

Ali Imron returns from
the American consulate.

With Jimi's inability to drive,

he's been ordered to take the
van and the two suicide bombers

close to their intended targets.

(SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

(SIGHS)

(KEYS JANGLING)

NARRATOR: The van bomb is now complete.

14 filing cabinets are
crammed with explosive.

They will be wired to a
set of detonator switches

and triggered by Jimi.

(SPEAKING MALAY)

NARRATOR: Iqbal's bomb vest has
10 tubes of TNT stitched into the lining.

The two suicide bombers have
practiced their lethal drill all afternoon.

Now they have their dress rehearsal.

(SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

NARRATOR: On his way out, Idris finds
a cell phone that has wires attached to it,

but he doesn't realize its significance.

He simply puts the phone
in his pocket and leaves.

(ALI IMRON SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

(DANCE MUSIC PLAYING)

NARRATOR: 20 minutes
before the bomb blasts,

and two of Bali's most popular nightspots,

Paddy's Bar and the Sari
Club, are filling up fast.

(CAR HONKING)

SIMON: We came in spits
and spats, probably about...

By about a quarter to,
about 10:00, we're all in there.

Obviously when 20 of us are in there

the place sort of blew a little bit more.

So we... We sort of took
over the place pretty early.

I reckon probably by about 11:00,

I noticed it was, uh,
really full with people

and I... I would say probably 350 people.

SOPHIE: The person we were with suggested

that we should go out at the Sari Club,

because she had heard
good things about that place,

that is was the happening place in Kuta.

So we said "Okay, well, let's go

"and start off our vacation
together, pretty nice."

And, uh, the place was packed.

HANABETH: I was having a
great time with Marc, my boyfriend.

And we're just being stupid.

We're dancing down to the
music, having a ball. Life's for living.

I think the songs slowly
started just degrading

into this cheesier and cheesier stuff.

And I think Cher came on, Do
You Believe in Life After Love?

And Marc said, "Look,
I've got some pride here.

"You know, I'm not dancing to Cher.
Come on, guys, let's go for a drink."

So he wandered off and I said,
"Yeah, see you in a minute."

And that was the last time I spoke to him.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: It's taken Ali
Imron almost half an hour

to drive the badly over-laden van

the eight kilometers to the center of Kuta.

He pulls over about 100
meters short of the Sari Club.

(LIFTING HAND BREAK)

(SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

(AGREEING IN INDONESIAN)

NARRATOR: With less than eight
minutes to go before detonation,

Jimi now has to maneuver
the van closer to the night clubs.

It will stretch his pitiful
driving skills to the limit.

LEIGH: If you were
going to plan this, you'd...

You'd hopefully get a competent driver.

But they still got the bomb there.

I mean, at the end of the
day they still got the bomb

to the place where they
were going to blow it up.

They still got Iqbal to blow
himself up in... In Paddy's Bar.

(ENGINE REVVING)

NARRATOR: The van stops again.

This time just 30 meters
away from the two night clubs.

Iqbal will travel the rest of
the way to Paddy's Bar on foot.

If he fails to detonate
the TNT in his vest,

he could just walk away.

But if Jimi loses his nerve now,

the bomb builders have added a timer,

a booby-trap motion sensor, and they think,

a mobile phone acting
as a remote detonator.

About two kilometers away
Ali Imron and Idris pull over,

intending to start the
sequence of explosions.

(SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

NARRATOR: Without the
remote detonator for the van,

all they can do is explode the small
bomb at the American consulate.

(BEEPING)

(PHONE RINGING)

(EXPLOSION)

(OPERATOR SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

NARRATOR: Jimi reaches the Sari Club.

Iqbal is just a few steps from Paddy's Bar.

Jimi's been ordered
to wait for the explosion

from Iqbal's bomb before
he detonates his own.

(CHATTERING)

(DANCE MUSIC PLAYING)

(YELLING) Allah!

(SCREAMING)

PETER: The whole place
went completely black.

I tumbled, I went straight
up in the air, it felt like.

Um, I had a girl in my arms, I
don't know where she came from.

(GLASS SHATTERING)

I was in this dream where
things were happening,

but I... I really wasn't quite
sure what was going on.

I remember thinking to myself,

where's the guys? Where am I?

Uh, why's this girl next to me?

Uh, why can't I see anything?

(GLASS SHATTERING)

I remember saying to this young
lady that we need to get out of here.

And, uh, as I was walking
out, I can remember stumbling.

And as I was looking down
thinking what was under my feet,

and then it really hit me. I saw people.

LEIGH: Yeah, the bomb at
Paddy's bar, which was TNT,

that burned fairly well because Paddy's Bar

was set up like a beach chalet,

so you had lots of leaves and
rubbish like that, which all burned.

That was the attractor bomb to
bring everybody out onto the street,

to kill more people.

(CHATTERING)

NARRATOR: The bomb in Paddy's Bar is
heard above all the noise in the Sari Club.

POLLY: It was weird because
it was a very loud explosion.

Yet at the same time dulled
because it wasn't right with us.

So, it was kind of like,

you know, "Whoa, what
the hell is that," sort of thing.

The lights went out and the
music went off for a second

and everyone stopped.

And the music came back
on, the lights came back on,

and we sort of went "Mmm, that was odd."

- SIMON: I know Bali. I know the noises...
- (SCREAMING)

I know the sounds that happen.

I heard some screaming and noise.

But I just thought it was... It was Bali.

It was just... It wasn't
anything different.

From the witnesses, they
heard Paddy's Bar explode,

they stood up, they had enough
time to stand up, look to the right,

and then the one in the car exploded.

(SCREAMING)

(EXPLOSION)

It makes every bone in my body just shudder

just taking myself back there
and remembering it again,

because it was just something
so horrific and so awful.

(GLASS SHATTERING)

The air just went vroom.

It was the most amazing
bright yellow light that...

That came flying towards me.

The first knowledge was
just a very strong impact,

um, pushing me towards the ground.

It's a noise that I'll never
ever forget, ever in my lifetime.

It... It was a sonic noise,
it was a sonic boom.

- Suddenly everything just went boom.
- (EXPLOSION)

(GLASS SHATTERING)

As soon as I fell on the ground...

I mean, it's a blank.
Um, I lost conscience.

And I remember being
tossed up into the air, um...

I remember everything flying.
Bits of building, everything.

I was thrown to the ground.

Only reason I know that because I was...

I got myself up off the ground.

I remember just being
thrown into the air like a rag doll

and then just coming down with a thud

and... And then there was
this horrible eerie silence.

Just stuff piled on top of me and I
couldn't figure out what had happened.

And I remember just lying there thinking,

"Okay, well, something really,
really bad has just happened."

And obviously I'm... I'm pretty stuffed,

I'm dead. And I remember
lying there thinking,

"Wow, that's really
annoying, I wasn't ready to go."

(SIRENS WAILING)

And then everyone started
getting up and surging,

and that's when... That's when
the reality and the screaming began.

-(SOBBING) -Everyone
that could move started to.

The roof had caved in and bars had
been exploded. People were everywhere.

Uh, and it was like someone
on the other side has this torch

shining through and it...
It opened this little light.

So I just went let's go
there, without a hesitation.

The only instinct that I saw at that
point was to get out of this bloody thing.

(WOMAN COUGHING)

SOPHIE: I woke up eventually
because people were trying to find the exit

and were actually walking on my back.

I remember I was faced
by taking a decision,

like, "Sophie, if you do
stay pinned down here,

"you're gonna burn, you're gonna die.

"And, you've gotta get out of here!"

(WOMAN COUGHING)

I just pushed myself and
then I was thinking very hard

about my family and the people I love,

and this is I think, what gave me
the adrenaline to get out of there.

POLLY: I felt the heat before I felt pain.

I realized that the left-hand
side of my body was on fire.

And, uh, I thought, "Get
the hell out of there."

(SIRENS WAILING)

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

NARRATOR: One of the first on the scene,

moments after the
explosions is Richard Poore,

a news cameraman from New Zealand.

RICHARD: It's huge, it's scary.

And I sound like a TV journalist.

Being the fact that I was
working for a television station,

um, I tend to have my
camera with me all the time.

So my first instinct was
just to grab the camera

and bolt outside.

People are burned everywhere.

There's an LPG container, there's
people dead, there's everything.

I'd... I'd never seen anything like it.

Just met by this... This wall
of people coming towards me

with just horrendous injuries.

You know, there were
people running everywhere.

There was a guy, um...

Guy running, screaming... Well,
not running, being carried screaming,

um, "Just let me die, let me die."

And he was missing a leg. There was just...

(SIRENS WAILING)

NARRATOR: By now both clubs
have started to burn like furnaces

with hundreds still trapped inside.

RICHARD: There was the
most disgusting smell in the air,

which obviously was, you
know, the burning bodies.

POLLY: I was running up the road screaming

and there were quite a few
people there injured and not injured.

I remember there were some
Indonesians on a motorbike,

and I remember running up to them
saying, "Help me, help me, help me."

You know, "I'm on fire, help
me, help me. Take me to hospital."

And, um, they just backed way,
you know, hands up, backed away.

They were obviously clearly
terrified seeing me like a fireball

coming towards them.

(SIRENS WAILING)

Lucky that there was an
Australian guy called Noel,

and he had a blanket in
his hand. And he saw me

and came running over

and, um, basically put the
flames out and held me upright.

I didn't even want to
know what I looked like.

I didn't want to know the worst of
what had actually happened to me.

I didn't want to know my injuries.

Um, what I could see on other the people

was a reflection of what I thought
maybe I was going to be like.

And that wasn't very pleasant.

My injuries were, um, mainly burns.

Um, 23% of my body was burned
to the third degree, deep dermal.

Um, both of my eardrums were punctured.

I had someone behind
me with two legs blown off,

who was writing letters to
his family saying goodbye.

HANABETH: I remember
getting to a point and looking down

and just seeing someone
on the floor moving.

They were blackened and they
were obviously in a lot of pain.

I just said to him, "I don't
care if your legs are broken,

"because if you don't
move now there's no way...

"You're not going to survive. So
get up now. I'll help you all I can."

So I remember just pulling
him up and carrying his weight,

just wrapped his arms round my shoulder.

And just helped him just
get away from the fire.

NARRATOR: A photographer captures
Hanabeth's rescue of Tom Singer,

a 17-year-old Australian.

(SCOOTER APPROACHING)

Ali Imron and Idris
arrive at a small mosque

within earshot of the carnage.

(ALI IMRON SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

(SIRENS BLARING)

(SIRENS BLARING)

(WHISTLE BLOWING)

NARRATOR: Polly Miller's husband
of five weeks, Dan, is missing.

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

POLLY: Part of me, you
know, knew I think really that...

That the chances of them
getting out were so slim

because, you know, I... Where I'd looked
towards, to my left was a wall of fire.

And that's where they had been.

But you know, I had got out
and therefore I assumed, uh,

or hoped, that the others
and Dan had got out.

(SIRENS BLARING)

NARRATOR: Hanabeth Luke's
boyfriend Marc has also vanished.

I remember standing
on the roof of this car,

and just... Just look...
Trying to look over the flames

and just yelling Marc's
name again and again

and just...

Just becoming more and more desperate.

And I remember looking back
at the flames, and knowing that

as I didn't hear my voice
being... My name being called,

I knew, I knew in my heart
then if he wasn't calling my name,

that was it.

(SIGHS)

NARRATOR: Investigators
in Bali were initially confronted

with a scene so devastating

that it took time to realize
that this was a suicide bombing.

GRAHAM: It took a number of
days until we were firm in our opinion

that it had been a suicide bombing.

A forensics expert pointed us to, uh,

one seat of one blast in Paddy's Bar.

And in the ceiling of...
Directly above that blast

there were some human remains.

These remains were DNA tested, then
came back as the remains of one person.

And therefore we had one person

in contact with the device
at the time it detonated,

uh, just above the waist
level of that... Of that person.

NARRATOR: The architects
of the suicide attacks

had left a highly visible trail of evidence

that was quickly picked up by
Indonesian and Australian investigators.

They got their first
breakthrough at the mosque

where Idris and Ali Imron
had abandoned the motorcycle.

People in the mosque reported
to us that was a motorcycle left

in the yard of the... The mosque.

We identified that that motorcycle

was used by one of the suspects, Idris.

When we looked at the motor
bike, it had three switches.

It was wired to switch off the brake light,

the light over the number
plate and isolate the motor.

This bike was designed to
defeat the traffic cameras,

so they'd never... The police would never
be able to pick up the registration plate.

Well, Bali doesn't have
any traffic cameras.

GENERAL PASTIKA: And also
from this vehicle we could identify

three persons who bought
this used motorcycle.

NARRATOR: From the motorcycle salesman,

the police now had good descriptions
of Ali Imron, Idris and Amrozi.

Then the investigators
got their biggest break.

LEIGH: Unbeknownst to
most people in Indonesia,

a light truck in Bali has a, uh...

A vehicle identification
number stamped in the axle,

to identify, you know, where it came from.

This number led us straight to Amrozi.

He didn't know there was a number.

I mean, we didn't know there was
a number till a couple of days later.

(YELLING IN MALAY)

NARRATOR: Amrozi's appearances
in court gave the outside world

- its first glimpse into the mindset of the conspirators.
- (CAMERAS CLICKING)

(YELLING IN ARABIC)

NARRATOR: Amrozi became
known as "the smiling bomber".

SIMON: Trials I didn't follow.

I couldn't bear Amrozi going crazy

and making the whole
situation so much more painful,

not just for me but for the
families that lost love ones.

You know that... I cannot imagine that pain

that they would have felt
watching and seeing those men

going and making a big theater of it.

But that sort of personified Amrozi.

Amrozi just had no
understanding of what he'd done.

He thought he was, you know,
the jihad and all the rest of it.

(JUDGE SPEAKING INDONESIAN)

NARRATOR: Most of the other
conspirators were soon rounded up.

Idris, who was to escape a death
sentence on a legal technicality.

The two commanders, Samudra and Mukhlas,

both sentenced to death
and both defiant to the end.

And Ali Imron, who expressed
remorse for the attack,

imprisoned for life. All confessed.

DR. CHALK: One has to
ask, well, why are they talking?

Some say because
they've got nothing to lose.

Others say well, because they
want to inflate this perception

that they are these true masters of death.

NARRATOR: The Bali bombing trials
played out increasingly as macabre theater.

The last to be tried, Abu Bakr Bashir,

- the alleged leader of Jama Islamia...
- (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

...was sentenced to two and a
half years in jail for conspiracy.

The perception in the West that
he was a cog in the al-Qaeda wheel

merely enhanced his star
quality among his acolytes.

DR. CHALK: There seemed
to be this aspersion that

Jama Islamia itself was the
operational wing of al-Qaeda.

I mean, that's in actual fact
how the group was portrayed,

as the operational wing of al-Qaeda.

The problem with that approach is that

it has the danger of actually
creating the very conditions

and the very environment
which these governments so fear.

The West, the policy makers,

then construct this, uh,

super organization that is
organizing and co-coordinating

all of these activities that
feeds into policy making

and that avails al-Qaeda
because al-Qaeda not only

is able to visibly demonstrate
its continued durability

it can show that "just look at
what the West is saying about us."

NARRATOR: Today the land where
the Sari Club and Paddy's Bar stood

is inhabited only by the
memory of that terrible night.

Polly Miller spent almost
five months in hospital,

with burns to 40% of her body.

Dan, her husband of five weeks,

never made it out of the Sari Club.

POLLY: It was a very weird sensation
of having your life completely shattered.

And I always sort of liken
it to having a wine glass

and someone just dropping it,
and that's your life in smithereens.

And you slowly bit by bit
pick up the pieces and rebuild.

NARRATOR: The memorial
next to where the clubs had stood

lists 202 names,

including Dan Miller,

Tom Singer, rescued by Hanabeth Luke,

but who died five weeks later.

And seven of Simon Quayle's football team.

Every name etched into
the granite is a life lost

and many others ruined.

HANABETH: I had to phone Marc's parents.

I mean, I just... I didn't
even know what to say.

"Listen, Ray, you know, there's
no other way to tell you this.

"Marc's dead, you know."

He just started shouting
"No," you know, shouting.

(SIGHS)

And you could hear, you know,
hear the thud of his knees just,

you know, just as he fell to the floor.

And I could hear his mom in
the background starting to scream.

And that was the most awful moment of all.

(SIGHS)

And that's just one person.