I'd sort of issued myself last rites, said a prayer. [9], A report released in August 2005 by the United States-Indonesia Society (USINDO) described the events as follows:[10]. David Fyfe was very nearly number 203. I thought it was good to keep them as documents of the history of my life. The car was in flames. 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. David Fyfe, Synergy's head of commercial and its acting chief executive, succeeds Jason Waters, who took the helm of the Perth Mint last month. It stars Raelee Hill, Mirrah Foulkes, Alex Komang, Surya Saputra, John O' Hare, Sarah Treleaven, and Joshua Pandelaki. Join the Business News community for the latest news headlines, straight to your inbox, twice daily. The Cross of Valour is the highest civilian honor and is equivalent to the Victoria Cross for Australia which is the highest military honor. Umar Patek was finally arrested in Abbottabad, Pakistan in early 2011. ATKINSON: [At the hospital] I asked who was in charge and the doctor came forward with a huge clipboard, who'd been up all night and was white with tirednessHe showed me the names many Australian names and addresses. The company also provided significant financial support for RPH. [41] In the final moment, there was no remorse or repentance, and they shouted: Allahu Akbar, or "God is great! I've got my life back. "I'm at the stage where my prosthetic leg will crack before I do," he said. By then, his leg had been amputated just below the knee by burns surgeon Fiona Wood, who was named Australian of the Year in 2005 for her work in caring for the Bali bombing survivors. Get the news you want delivered to your inbox. The pair had been in the Sari Club, which was wrecked by the bigger secondary blast, just two drinks earlier. Once they pulled me out of the wheel chair I don't remember anything else. 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. I do not know for sure the source of the aforementioned money from Hambali; most probably it was from Afghanistan, that is, from Sheikh Usama bin Laden. Abu Bakar Bashir, the doyen of JI, is free, jailed then cleared of any involvement in the Bali atrocity. At the beginning of each scene, subtitles tell the date and location of the scene. The remainder of the explosive material, in my opinion, definitely degraded violently. Another suspect named Zulkarnaen was finally arrested in Lampung on 10 December 2020. 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. And that will help you determine what the likely category of explosives were. ", West Australian Newspapers Limited 2023. With a grin, Mr Fyfe said his 14-year-old son Liam, his "little mate", seemed proud of his old man's recovery, and liked to tell the tale. [22], The organization suspected of responsibility for the bombing was Jemaah Islamiyah, an Islamist group allegedly led by radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. But we were running concurrently, what was effectively a murder investigation [of] a terrorist bombing that killed 202 people, including the 88 Australians [and] at the same time, we were running a disaster victim identification [investigation of] those 202 people. Mr Fyfe is a non-executive director of the Fiona Wood Foundation, a 2002 Bali bombing survivor, and regularly speaks at events in Western Australia. Another participant in the bombing, Imam Samudra, was sentenced to death on 10 September. On 15 August, Riduan Isamuddin, generally known as Hambali, described as the operational chief of Jemaah Islamiyah was arrested in Ayutthaya, Thailand, the old capital one hour's drive north of Bangkok. There were people bleeding everywhere, or people had their clothes blown off and they're trying to jump over walls to get out. Serious but stable condition. So to see that sort of destruction was on another level. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to He is also on the board of the Fiona Wood Foundation, and as a recipient of the spray on skin technology developed by Professor Fiona Wood and Dr Marie Stoner. The doctors suspected I would be off work for 12 months. Clint Thompson Trent Thompson David was treated by the staff at Royal Perth hospital under the leadership of Fiona Wood. Kusitino 'Kossy' Halemai, a Wallis and Futuna-born Australian citizen who was managing the Bounty Hotel in Kuta at the time of the attacks, sheltered survivors in the immediate aftermath of the blasts. I don't know why you would expect them to look different from a normal human. Get notifications in MyBN when activity occurs. Idris picked up Imron on the Yamaha and the duo headed back into Denpasar. 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). He is also now a long-serving board member for the Fiona Wood Foundation, giving it some crucial understanding from a former patient. Its 20 years on, but I can still remember a really loud popping noise, he said. 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 media footage was dramatic and horrible. Money is being raised through the Dunn & Lewis Youth Development Foundation.[56][57][58]. A couple from Adelaide who were holidaying on the island, Jon Mason and doctor Irene Kushelew, were with him in the hospital while he had many operations to save his life. The most powerful knowledgebase mapped from 20 years of research and insight into every WA Idris dialed the number of the Nokia to detonate the bomb at the Consulate. Mr Fyfe staggered outside. New guidelines from Canada say there's not, News of Bali bombmaker's sentence reduction 'kick in the guts' for survivors, Suspected Bali bombing mastermind set to walk free, but Australians worry what will happen next, Cheryl Watson survived the Bali bombings and breast cancer, and knew 'the fear' when she saw it, Man drowns at northern NSW beach while trying to save daughter, Government pledges to close child abuser superannuation loophole, 'I was hitting it so soft': Aussie wildcard reflects on 70-shot rally in Australian Open loss. And that was it. [1] In addition, Hambali confessed that al-Qaeda had sent him US$30,000 to fund the bombings of the two nightclubs.[2]. I tried to get out but couldn't open the left door. He had been tried under retroactive laws which were introduced after the bombing and which were employed to aid the prosecution of those involved in the attack. Media and Investors Richard Carcenac RBR Group Limited Chief Executive Officer . One of the things thats enabled me to get through is that I accepted everything that happened very quickly, I didnt fight the, Why has it happened?, Mr Fyfe said. David Fyfe has over 20 years of experience across the energy and telecommunications industries. It's quite a challenging thing to do. [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. THIOLINA: After [being turned away from one hospital] an ambulance took me to the army hospital in Denpasar. He is a survivor of the 2002 Bali bombings which claimed the lives of over 200 people including 88 Australians. In 2008, three men were executed for their role in the Bali bombings. When she set up the foundation, she named it after one of her old mentors. [33][34][35] On 25 October 2008, Communications and Information Minister asked the Indonesian media to stop calling the three "heroes". JONES:[The terrorists]were more inspired by two things [in the Bali bombing attack]. The whole nightclub was engulfed in flames. 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). The boys were a matter of only five minutes away from the site when the bombs went off, but lifes full of sliding door moments.. I can still picture that day. Were working to restore it. The Indonesian chief of police, General Da'i Bachtiar said that the bombing was the "worst act of terror in Indonesia's history". All the pictures too I burnt them all. A Zero Hour documentary depicts the disaster.[61]. Laura Shuttleworth has married. In 2022 (20 years after the incident), the Australian-Indonesian historical drama Bali 2002, aired on Stan and Nine Network. 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. [29] He was also stated to have orchestrated numerous Jemaah Islamiyah-related incidents in the past and been one of the executives of said terrorist group.[30]. A manager with Western Power, Mr Fyfe said he used the resilience and patience the bombings had awoken in him to help his employees and himself. And then I thought 'ohshit, that looks like it's near the Sari Club.'. We had a quick swim, got ready, went to a place for dinner and then made our way to the Sari Club. I gave him my mum's number. "It was going poisonous. Not quite ready to subscribe? When he woke from an induced coma in Royal Perth Hospital 13 days later, the nurses told him, his right leg had been amputated just below the knee. The previous year, they had been to Phuket. I kept everything,all the articles. The Australian government said it would not ask Indonesia to refrain from using the death penalty. It was an end-of-season soccer trip that put Mr Fyfe in Bali, standing on the edge of the dance floor in Paddy's Bar, when the first bomb went off. So it enables the translation of the global jihad to a local context. 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