On this day, on the Indonesian island of Bali, three bombs were exploded in a terrorist attack that killed 202 people. At 11:05 p.m. a suicide bomb exploded in Paddy’s Bar. Seconds later, a powerful car bomb exploded in front of the Sari Club. A third bomb exploded in front of the U.S. consulate. Bali being a favourite tourist destination, many of the victims were foreign tourists (88 Australians and 28 British) with the remainder coming from at least 21 different countries, apart from Indonesia itself. In the investigations that followed the terrorist attack, Indonesian, Australian and British task forces identified the terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiyah (an Islamic group) as responsible for the bombing. Founded in the late 1960s with the aim of propagating fundamentalist Islamic precepts, in the 1990s Jemaah Islamiyah organised itself as an al-Qaeda-supported terrorist organization. The perpetrators of the bombings were executed by a firing squad on 9 November 2008.
The Bali Bombings
11th October 2002