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The third world war: al Qaeda

SOUTH EAST ASIA.

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RECONSTRUCTION

Somewhere in the heart of New York city a young Al Qaeda recruit is interrogated by the FBI. They call him The Source

RECONSTRUCTION

10:00:21 – 10:00:27

The Source tells the FBI that Al Qaeda is exploiting a new terrorist breeding ground across Southeast Asia. DALE WATSON

We knew that Indonesia and that who region was in fact boiling so to speak and was about to boil over.

RECONSTRUCTION

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10:00:41 – 10:00:50 We have exclusive access to the complete FBI interrogation of the Source. He clearly warns the intelligence community of a tragedy about to unfold. The Source said the plan was to conduct bombings in bars, cafes or nightclubs frequented by Westerners. The Source also stated that there was a ton of explosive waiting in Indonesia

10:01:04 – 10:01:19

The warning came four months before the Bali Bombs

Lives could have been saved but they weren’t

We investigate the failure to heed the Source’s warning and prevent a devastating attack.

TAPE 8 PAGE 9… out is 00:24:42:09 I thought the more bombs I delivered the more I’d be rewarded in the after life. That was the underlying principle

IN:00:24:35:02 jadi istilahnya pada waktu itu saya sok wah, kalau bawa 2 bom itu nanti dapat pahalanya banyak. Memang itu prinsipnya. OUT: 00:24:42:09

LOUD EXPLOSION, FLAMES, SCREAMS, MUSIC/MIXED BALINESE MASKS

THE THIRD WORLD WAR – AL QAEDA

THE BREEDING GROUNDS

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PICTURES OF BALI

PICTURE ARCHIVE

BALI PARADISE PICTURES

10:02:01 – 02:13

On the Indonesian paradise island of Bali, tourists relax and unwind – unaware they’re being watched by Followers of Osama Bin Laden.

10:02:23 – 02:28

Bars, nightclubs and restaurants are the new target in this global war against the West.

10:02:36 – 02:40

On October 12 2002, terrorists brought hell to this heaven on earth.

There’s destruction everywhere man This place is absolutely fucked. This is a big fucking bomb that went off man, a big fucking bomb, real big.

BALI FIRE AND UPSOF. OF VIDEO

UPSOF

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10:03:07 – 03:11 Two nightclubs - packed with tourists were ripped apart by massive explosions.

PICTURE ARCHIVE

BALI FIRE AND UPSOF OF VIDEO

There’s going to be a lot of dead people. There’s people we know in there, there’s going to be a lot of deaths man.

SYNCH GENERAL MADE PASTIKA – chief of Police, Bali When I first hear about the Bali bombing, those people must be crazy people.

10:03:44 – 03:49

Police Chief, General Made Pastika, a Balinese Hindu, faced the daunting task of finding the bombers and bringing them to justice.

PASTIKA

The pressure came from everywhere . As a police officer everyone wanted us to uncover the case as soon as possible.

10:04:06 – 04:18

But the Bali police were simply not equipped to handle an investigation this big. General Pastika needed urgent help.

SYNCH PASTIKA TAPE SYNCH

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5: 21:05 Its very important we understand and realise now that our technology is very far left behind.

AFP HEADQUARTERS CANBERRA

10:04:35 – 04:46

He turned to the most technically advanced force in the region, the Australian Federal Police. They set up command centre in Canberra help the investigation.

MICK KEELTY- Australian Federal Police Commissioner

Terrorism is a crime. At its base is mass murder. The way to investigate terrorism is the way we investigate crime. Once you start chasing down that direct evidence you are chasing down the terrorists

MICK KEELTY – AFP POLICE COMMISSIONER It was thought the intelligence community would have the pre-eminent role that when when a terrorist incident occurs it’s a failure of intelligence of some sort in not knowing what was going to happen before it happened.

10:05:37 – 05:43

The commissioner sent Pastika a 140 of his officers under the command of Federal Agent, Graham Ashton.

PICTURE

ARCHIVE BALI BOMB CRATER

GRAHAM ASHTON

In some respects if you just took a look at the whole picture you might be overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of it. The scene at the crime scene there was rubble everywhere. The amount of victims at the mortuary which far outweighed the amount of space and obviously there is still a lot of search and rescue that had to be

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done as well. And there was at that stage there was no indication as to who was responsible.

BOMB SITE ARCHIVE

10:06:21 – 06:37

COMM

Pastika and Ashton didn’t know that there had been clear intelligence that Bali was a likely terrorist target.

The two policemen began the investigation together, starting from scratch.

SYNCH PASTIKA TAPE. 16:10

Terrorists, they have a very specific motivation. Anybody can have the motives to rob somebody but not to kill somebody so if the murder case if much easier to investigate from my point of view

FORENSIC SCENE:

10:07:04 – 07:07 Their forensic teams painstakingly collected bits of hair, bone and debris from the crime scene – hoping to piece the puzzle together.

PASTIKA

I believe no crime is perfect. They must leave evidence and we can trace. I was very optimistic.

COMM

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10:07:27 – 07:47 Indonesia is the worlds largest muslim nation, but the island of Bali is predominantly Hindu. Local tradition dictated that the blood-soaked earth from the bomb sites had to be scooped up and cast to the waves - to release the spirits of the dead. It would mean that any remaining evidence would be lost with it.

BALI HINDU CEREMONY

GRAHAM ASHTON The local customs demanded that a cleansing process take place and that the crime scene be levelled and the rubble be taken out to the ocean and there was quite a bit of pressure at different times for that process to begin before we were ready.

PICTURE

ASHTON OPERATING THE 3-D ICITE:

10:08:11 – 08:31

COMM

The investigators won more time, but knowing the evidence would ultimately be lost to the sea, Ashton brought in unique 3-D laser imagery to preserve the crime scene forever.

Eye-witnesses were then taken back inside the virtual nightclubs to unlock their memories.

Finally, a picture of what happened that night began to emerge.

SYNCH

AGENT ASHTON Initial word from the forensic teams were that we were looking at three explosions. One at Paddys Pub, the obvious one outside the Sari Club and then another blast not far from the US Consulate.

PICTURE

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3-D ICITE OF AMERICAN EMBASSY BOMB

COMM

10:08:57 – 09:03

The US Consulate - wasn’t designed to kill. It was a ‘calling-card’ – an ominous warning to the Americans.

RECONSTRUCTION MOBILE TELEPHONE INNARDS AND SMS MESSAGE

SYNCH AGENT ASHTON TAPE 28 26;45 Just around the corner from the consulate, about 1kg of TNT detonated on the curb side and that had been detonated by remote control using a mobile telephone and we recovered quite a bit of that mobile from the crime scene.

10:09:21 – 09:29

The terrorists had detonated the bomb via a text message. The forensic teams hoped remnants of the phone would reveal something.

PICTURE

SARI AND PADDYS

09:36 – 09:46

But the most devastating explosion was outside the Sari Club Eyewitnesses remembered a white van driving up and then exploding.

ASHTON

(OVERLAY) a large Mitsubishi van had been loaded with a large amount of potassium chlorate, aluminium and diesel fuel and a detonator charge, was driven to the front of the Sari Club. There was about 300 patrons in the club at about the time the device exploded. It had an initial fragmentation effect and then a fireball effect.

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10:28 – 10:38

But still no one knew what caused the first explosion inside Paddy’s Bar just across the road from the Sari Club - until the forensic teams made a breakthrough.

10:42 – 10:57

The ceiling of the bar was held up by these pillars coated with metal cladding. Blasted deep inside, investigators found a piece of tartan cloth. It tested positive for explosives and critically human DNA.

PICTURE

3-D ICITE

SYNCH GRAHAM ASHTON 23:51 Locating that DNA certainly started to get us thinking that may be we were dealing with a suicide bomber. It wasn’t something that we initially thought was likely because we hadn’t seen that before in the region and then having a discussion with some Sri Lankan police that had previously had a lot of experience with suicide bombers in Sri Lanka and they provided us with some useful advice about what we might be looking fo. .

11:33 – 11:43 They were the remains of a suicide bomber. With computer imagery they built up his picture. He’d wrapped TNT around his body and blown himself up on the crowded dance floor of Paddy’s Bar.

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11:45 – 11:53

It seemed like a calculated plan to drive survivors into the line of the second even more devastating explosion from the white van outside the Sari Club.

OCEAN PICTURES

12:08 – 12:13 187 people died that night. Most were either British or Australian. The body count was destined to rise.

12:35 – 12:42

But the investigators were still no closer to knowing who was involved, or why Bali was a target..

ACT 2

SCENE 1

NEW YORK INTERROGATION

12:47 – 12:50

But the Source had the answers.

FLASH PICTURE OF SOURCE WORDS

13:03 – 123:09

The Source is the Al Qaeda suspect held by the FBI at a secret location for two years.

CHRIS REIMANN

The interrogations have been fairly successful with those people that are in custody. And there is evidence that they have been trained in counter-interrogation techniques, yet the majority of them seem to talk.

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13:29 – 13:36 We have exclusive access to his full 26-day interrogation. It’s written in the words of the FBI interrogators.

FBI INTERROGATION

The Source told Osama Bin Laden he wanted to be a member of al Qaeda. Osama Bin Laden told the Source he must fight the enemy of Islam where ever it may be.

RECONSTRUCTION USING WORDS INDONESIA CUT TO MAP OF INDONESIA

13:51 – 14:10

The Source’s interrogation provided a remarkable blueprint for the way Al Qaeda plans and executes its operations. He also revealed that Al Qaeda had infiltrated SE Asia long before 9/11.

COFER BLACK 14;11;24

It seems to have developed infrastructure, terrorist have developed cells, have found comfort in certain locations in Indonesia that cause us concern.

POSO VIDEO

14:37 – 14:55

This captured video was now proof of what the FBI and CIA suspected.

Al Qaeda was moving its training camps from Afghanistan to remote Indonesian islands. Recruits were coming from across the world to be instructed in the art of killing.

To the head of Indonesia’s Secret Intelligence Service, the video simply confirmed his suspicions.

POSO VIDEO

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SYNCH

GENERAL HENDROPRIYONO

Chief Indonesia State Intelligence Agency BIN

27:22 It shows how the Indonesians were trained by foreigners and we clearly heard all the lessons given in not in Indonesian language, given in Arabic language.

PICTURE

GRADUATION HANDING OUT GUN CEREMONY

COMM

15:33 – 15:40

This extraordinary video - shown here for the first time - captures eager recruits to AQ’s global jihad being trained in terrorist tactics.

PICTURE

NIGHT ATTACK OF LOCAL VILLAGE

COMM

15:43 – 15:52

The young recruits then graduate. It’s like school prize-giving day.

They then go on to film what they were taught for real.

SYNCH

HENDRO 27:22

Then are encircling a village, their target and their objective and then they shot and killed and they burned the village. Q. AND THEY BURNED THE VILLAGE.

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A. and they burned the village.

16:07 – 16:16 The new graduates draw their first blood.

This was a Christian village.

COMM

SYNCH

I warned the people about this after I reported to Cabinet session, I warned the people, there is a connection between terrorist. Indonesian terrorists with outside terrorists, with international terrorists and I warned the people we have to be careful.

Q. This was before 9/11

Before 9/11, it was August 24, and so many reactions.

PICTURE

ARCHIVE HENDROPRIYONO SET INSIDE TELEVISION SCREEN

ACTUALITY HENDROPRIYONO

There was also a training camp set up by al Qaeda.

General Hendropriyono then went public on what he’d uncovered. IBut he was silenced by his own Government. It was the first in a series of dangerous denials that al Qaeda had a foothold in Indonesia.

Then came 9/11. Al Qaeda struck at the heart of the Western world. The War on Terror was officially declared and it wasn’t just America that

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was in the front line. GEORGE BUSH: Every nation, in every region now has a decision to make , either you are either with us or with the terrorists

COFER BLACK

The community of nations appreciates I think that this is a situation that we all need to cooperate to address. We need to pool our information in a timely, efficient manner. We need to engage this scourge to protect innocent men, women and children.

18:15 – 18:28

Even as America was coming to terms with the enormity of the attacks, Al Qaeda was preparing to launch a second wave on the other side of the world. Its Jihad – its Holy War – was now global.

SCENE 2

SINGAPORE AWAKES TO TERRORISM

FBI Interrogation

On the City warfare course, the Source was told that upon entering a city he should obtain a guide book, like the type used by tourists. This guide book would provide information for travelling around the city and hotels as well as information on potential targets.

Just two months later, agents from Singapore’s all-knowing secret service- watched as two unknown foreigners arrived in the tightly controlled city state. They followed them through the streets of Singapore to a pre-arranged meeting in an underground carpark.

PICTURE

UNDERGROUND CARPARK SEQUENCE/CUT FAST THROUGH THE STREETS

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COMM

One is code-named ‘Sammy ‘ – he was AQ’s money man. The other, codenamed ‘Mike’ – is a notorious bomb maker.

PICTURE

TYRES SQUEELING AS THEY MOVE INTO UNDERGROUND CARPARK. PARK. THE VAN IS PARKED WITH TWO MEN SITTING IN THE BACK.

COMM

19: 28 – 19:35

What the agents don’t know is that Sammy and Mike have been sent to Singapore by Al Qaeda to blow the place apart.

WONG KAN SENG: Singapore HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER: 13:26:00

WHY IS SINGAPORE A TARGET?

Singapore is a target because firstly we have American servicemen transiting here, we have facilities which the Americans come and use and have many multi-national companies belonging to America.

PICTURE

GRAPHIC SATELLITE FROM SINGAPORE INTO STREET MAP OF EMBASSIES. RECCE VIDEO OF EMBASSIES

COMM

20:10 – 20:19

Sammy and Mike planned to explode massive truck bombs simultaneously against four highly symbolic targets - the British High Commission and the American, Israeli and Australian Embassies.

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PICTURE

JABARAH RECCE VIDEO OF EMBASSIES

COMM

20:24 – 20:29

In preparation, Sammy recce’d the embassies. This is the actual video he made with local help. WONG KAN SENG 13:44 They were divided into cells, and there were several cells operating or thinking of different plans and one of the plans was to get ammonium nitrate and place them on six trucks and create this massive explosion in six different locations.

PICTURE

RECONSTRUCTION MONEY CHANGING HANDS

COMM

20:52 – 21:00

Sammy supplied the cells with 10,000 dollars to fund the operation while Mike took care of the explosives.

PICTURE

OUR RECCE VIDEO

21:04: 21:10

They planned to use Middle Eastern suicide bombers. The attack was only weeks away.

SYNCH

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WONG KAN SENG: HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER 14:24:54

Q. THE PLAN WAS TO HAVE SIX TRUCK BOMBS BUT THEY DIDN’T HAVE ENOUGH AMMONIUM NITRATE. HOW DID THEY PLAN TO GET THE AMOUNT THEY NEEDED?

they had four tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate and these were in Malaysia and then they planned to buy 17 tonnes locally through a trader. LOCALLY…yes, yes, SO YOU CAN BUY 17 TONNES OF AMMONIUM NITRATE.

Well they went to a trader and asked for 17 tonnes of ammonium nitrate.

PICTURE RECONSTRUCTION

3. RECONSTRUCTION NEW YORK IINTERROGATION. 20” INTERROGATOR IN NEW POSITION IN ROOM. START INSIDE ROOM ON CIGARETTE IN ASHTRAY …TRACK ROUND TO GLASS SCREEN,

FBI INTERROGATION

According to the Source, Osama bin Laden concluded it was acceptable to kill those that are put in the way. When the United States puts their Embassies in the middle of crowded cities, it is the fault of the US that innocents are killed.

PICTURE

ISD OFFICERS SURVEILLANCE

COMM 22:16 – 22:21

The secret agents kept them in their sights - suspecting something but not knowing what.

PICTURE

VIDEO SCREEN IN SINGAPORE SQUARE/

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COMM 22:26 – 22:30

Suddenly the surveillance was threatened.

PICTURE

NEWSPAPERS SLO MO…BEING TAKEN FROM THE STALL IN THE SQUARE

COMM

22:33 -22:39

The press had got wind of an Al Qaeda connection with Singapore. Headlines would tip off the cells.

RAID

COMM

22:28 – 47:53 The agents had to move now. They swooped, raided the flats and arrested the cell members.

COMM

22:56 – 23:06 Sammy and Mike’s lethal truck bomb operation was exposed.

And much more. Literally sitting on the shelf was a video catalogue of Al Qaeda plots dating back more than five years.

23:10 – 23:15

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One showed a reconnaissance of American ships berthed in Singapore harbour.

HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER 31>11

All they had to do was load up a speed boat and ram it straight into the ship berthed alongside.

23:26 - 23:31

To the FBI, this tape looked alarmingly familiar. It was a replica of Al Qaeda’s suicide attack in Yemen on the USS Cole in 2000. 17 American servicemen died.

PAT D’MURO

08:24:30

That was the attack that would strike against our military dominance, another symbolic attack against the United States military.

COMM

23:54 – 23:59 The seized video was proof of another meticulously planned suicide operation. 24:03 – 24:10 The cell had even calculated how the suicide bomber could evade radar detection until the fatal moment of impact.

PICTURE RECONSTRUCTION

(7D) RECONSTRUCTION VIDEO IN AMONGST THE OTHERS IN FLAT RAID.

24:17 – 24:25

On another recce video, the target was Singapore’s underground. It came complete with English commentary.

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ACTUALITY

US military personnel will be dropped off from the bus and will walk towards the MRT station.

Now we zoom in, it’s a bicycle bay. You will notice the boxes placed on the bicycles. These are the same type of boxes we intend to use

HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER That particular subway station it is where the American servicemen transit and use when they are in Singapore and use it to go down town and so on.

ACTUALITY ON VIDEO

There’s the entrance to the temple with many vehicles parked there. They will not be suspicious of a motorcycle or bicycle there there.

25:18 – 25:29

This tape held conclusive proof that al Qaeda was behind the attacks. The Americans found a copy in Afghanistan – in the house of al Qaeda’s military commander - Mohammed Atef.

SYNCH CHRIS RIEMANN – FBI, SINGAPORE BUREAU CHIEF

It’s believed the cell here that made the surveillance tape of Western targets and took the tape to Afghanistan to Mohammed Atef to get his and Osama Bin Laden’s blessing to conduct the operations here in Singapore.

PICTURE

HAMBALI PHOTOGRAPH ON PLANE

COMM

25:58 – 26:06

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And there’s only one person in the region with such high level access to al Qaeda’s military leadership.

GRAPHIC PICTURE

His name is Hambali. He’s the Osama bin Laden of Southeast Asia.

He’s wanted by the FBI for involvement in both the USS Cole and 9/11 attacks.

Hambali was in hiding but able to pull the strings from afar.

The Singapore truck bombs were to have been his most audacious plot yet.

PAT D’AMURO

P.D [08:10:40]…

P.D The intelligence information indicates that Hambali fought with Bin Laden in Afghanistan. So we know that he has had connectivitiy to Al Qaeda.. to Bin Laden. We know that he was a significant recruiter, for Al Qaeda, but even more than that he was an operational planner for Al Qaeda.

PLANES TAKING OFF FROM SINGAPORE AIRPORT/LOUD PLANE NOISE

COMM

26:55 – 27:04

Hambali eluded capture – the local cells did not. They were subjected to intensive interrogation by Singapore’s secret service.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALL THE MEN DETAINED

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SYNCH

Home affairs Minister: SENG 13:21:00 They are not poor, not disenfranchised, marginalised people, they have jobs, they are married, quite a number of them, they have children, homes which they own, they have secular education in school, they studied English. They did national service to defend Singapore.

27:29 – 27:44 The suspects confessed to being members of Hambali’s radical terrorist organisation Jemmah Islamiyah . It’s revolutionary aim is for a fundamentalist Islamic state stretching as far as northern Australia. COFER BLACK 14:12:39 They are dangerous, they have cells in numerous countries in the region and they are being hunted and engaged for rendering into law enforcement.

Q. And connections with Al Qaeda?

CB. There have been contacts, yes

PICTURE

SINGAPORE SKYLINE FROM LIGHT TO DARK

COMM

28:02 – 28:12

The two most dangerous operatives in the Singapore plot– Sammy and Mike - escaped.

But the intelligence agencies had uncovered their true identities.

HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER

Mike, al Ghozi is a trainer and he is an explosives expert as well. He is an Indonesian who has been in the Philippines, the southern part of the Philippines for many years and he’s a trainer.

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Q. WHAT WAS HE TRAINING PEOPLE IN

R. He trained them in firearms, he trained them in bomb rigging

MIKE BIOG GRAPHIC

This is ‘Mike’. His real name is Fathur Rohmann al Ghozi. He too makes the FBI’s most wanted list as an Al Qaeda trained bomb-maker and gun runner.

ARCHIVE OF AL GHOZI BEING CAPTURED

Mike was quickly captured in the Philippines and sentenced to 17 in a top security prison . Within months, he escaped. CHRIS REIMANN

FBI SINGAPORE…

He’s the most- within the terrorist community, is the most respected bomb-maker and has been known to teach others how to make bombs and things so he’s very dangerous person so its very important that he be recaptured and charged with the various crimes he’s been involved in.

And the CIA was still hunting Sammy.

GRAPHIC …NOISE

29:32 – 29:45

They tracked him to the Middle East – to Oman.

GRAPHICS BIOG

Where they arrested - Mohammed Jabarah – alias Sammy. He was not a battled hardened, terrorist but a 19 year old Canadian student.

PIX YEAR BOOK PHOTOGRAPH

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29:48 – 29:59

Sammy was born in Kuwait but raisedand educated in Canada. His High School Yearbook photograph says it all. From teenager to terrorist.

DALE WATSON D.W [13:07:23] start out in Kuwait end up in a small town in Canada or a small city who somehow or another become involved deeply in the world of terrorist activities.. and planning and plotting them…

30:16 – 30:32 Sammy had been radicalised during his school holidays in Kuwait. From there he’d gone to train in al Qaeda’s camps in the wilds of Afghanistan.

DALE WATSON

So it just shows you how big this problem is and what the issues facing, not only the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, every country around the world faces - you never know where these individuals are.

AL QAEDA TRAINING VIDEO OF MEN MARCHING

FBI INTERROGATION

The Source shook Osama Bin Laden’s hand and made an oath. The oath was to fight against all those who hate Islam and stand by Osama bin Laden until death.

31:16 – 31:37

Sammy is the Source. It’s his FBI interrogation that we have. He’s still held to this day at a secret location somewhere in New York. He’s been there for nearly two years without charge or trial.

REPRIEVE SINGAPORE EMBASSY RECCE VIDEO

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31:39 – 31:41 Singapore was to have been his first mission as a full bloodied AQ recruit.

CAR MOVING FAST THROUGH STREETS AIRPORT UNDERGROUND

If truck bombs had gone off outside your embassy here, what damage would have been done?

CHRIS REIMANN; FBI SINGAPORE

There would have been considerable damage had they been able to place it in the right location. The amount of explosives that were talking about being used would have caused considerable damage to the facility and the surrounding areas. SIX TONNES OF AMMONIUM NITRATE.

That’s a lot of ammonium nitrate. It would have done some serious damage.

Sammy told the FBI that when the Singapore mission was thwarted, he fled, fearing arrest. Once safely out, he contacted Hambali at an unlikely email address - bob_marley123@yahoo.com - Sammy also told the FBI that the cells operated in a secret world of codes. GRAPHIC PICTURE

The source stated that there were no set codes used by al Qaeda. codewords were generally established by the individual cells. One of the codes they used for Americans was WHITE MEAT.

INTERROGATION ROOM FBI NEW YORK. PICTURES OF DR AZAHARI AND MUKHLAS ARE THROWN ONTO THE TABLE IN FRONT OF

33:06 – 33:24

Hambali responded to Sammy’s e.mail by calling him to a top secret meeting in Thailand. Around the table were, Muklas - a fellow veteran of the Afghan/Soviet war and Dr Azahari – a professor of biochemistry and notorious al Qaeda bomb-maker.

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POSS SYNCH PAT D’AMURO

08:15:23

A lot of individuals that are members of al Qaeda are well educated. When you look at AQ’s desire to develop biological and chemical weapons, their weapons of mass destruction programme, they have many individuals that sympathise with their cause that assist them with those particular programmes.

33:50 – 33:59

Hambali ordered Muklas and Dr Azahari to prepare a devastating attack against Western tourists- perhaps revenge for the failure of the Singapore plot.

FBI INTERROGATION The last contact the Source had with Hambali was in mid January 2002, in Thailand. His plan was to conduct bombings in bars, cafes or nightclubs frequented by westerners. Hambali also stated he had one ton of explosives in Indonesia.

PAT D’AMORO 08:07:18 We had intelligence indicating that. Al Qaeda was starting to consider, and other groups affiliated with Al Qaeda were looking at soft target. Wherever you develop information or have intelligence indicating of specific targets, you disseminate that information as quickly as you can.

AMERICAN IMAGERY

34:47 – 34:57

But with the Indonesian government still in denial about an al Qaeda presence, America turned to the country President Bush calls his deputy sheriff - Australia.

DATA MINING VOICE RECOGNITION SOUND WAVES

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BALI PARADISE SHOTS.

35:03 – 35:17

America needed Australia to gather regional intelligence and report back.

But the Australian government had its own political agenda with Indonesia and had blocked intelligence with America going back to the crisis in East Timor.

WARREN REED – FORMER OFFICE OF NATIONAL ASSESSMENT INTELLIGENCE OFFICER

The Americans twigged to that. In fact they were told, they knew and that’s why they started to depend more on their own independent sources..

This long-standing conflict between Australian and US intelligence had already claimed one victim.

An Australian intelligence officer based in Washington, became caught between America’s demand for regional intelligence and the Australian government’s reluctance to give it.

COMBINATION OF AMERICAN FLAG WITH TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS

35:46 – 35:56

As the pressure mounted, Merv Jenkins gave in and passed sensitive intelligence to the American agencies. His own Australian bosses placed him under investigation.

35:58 – 36:02

The respected career intelligence officer, killed himself.

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SYNCH WARREN REED:

FORMER AUSTALIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER,

20:28

The best of our intelligence tradition can largely now no longer help the nation because the government of the day will only hear what it wants to hear. We have examples with East Timor and to a significant degree to the Bali attack. It’s very worrying that’s the sort of meltdown that’s occurred.

COMM

In the year leading up to Bali, Australia’s Foreign Minister was warned by one of his own intelligence agencies at two separate meetings that Bali was an attractive target.

As far back as 9/11 he was even told that ‘a tourist hotel in Bali’ would be a hugely symbolic terrorist hit.

CHATTER ON THE AIRWAVES

COMM

Suddenly electronic intercepts – known in the jargon as ‘chatter’ - indicated something big was in the air.

DALE WATSON INT But did you know that Indonesia was a target?

D.W [13:26:08] We knew that Indonesia and that whole region was in fact boiling so to speak and about to boil over…

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FBI INTERROGATION

The Source stated that there were a ton of explosives waiting in Indonesia. The Source said the plan wa to conduct bombings in bars, cafes or nightclubs, frequented by Westerners.

SYNCH

ANDREW PLUNKETT – FORMER AUSTRALIA REGIMENTAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER.

It seems quite incredible where you had reliable human intelligence from captured JI Al Qaeda members in the region being questioned and debriefed by the United States providing us with very reliable reporting and us not acting off it.

ALEXANDER DOWNER: AUSTRALIAN MINISTER FOREIGN AFFAIRS

There were never any warnings about Bali. Neither the Americans nor the British and nor us had any specific warnings in relation to Bali but we had generic warnings about Indonesia and Bali is part of Indonesia.

TOURISTS IN BALI

38:36 – 38: 45

Two days before the bombers struck, America issued a travel warning to its citizens to avoid bars, restaurants and nightclubs.

PICTURE

BALI PARADISE SHOTS OF TOURISTS:

38:48 – 38:57

Britain does nothing.

Australia told its tourists Bali was business as usual.

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Andrew Plunkett And the cardinal sin of all was to say that Bali was operating as per normal. When obviously it was the biggest soft target, or one of the biggest soft targets in Indonesia.

ACT 3 SCENE 1

THE INVESTIGATORS

BALI DESTRUCTION PICTURES.

It now looks like the only people who didn’t know that terrorists were coming were the Balinese – because nobody told them.

PICTURE

GENERAL PASTIKA ROLL CALL POLICE

UPSOF

Ladies and gentlemen to prevent terrorism it needs a comprehensive effort not only by the police but also by all sections of the nations, the state and the Government.

PICTURE

POLICE OFFICERS LINED UP OUTSIDE POLICE STATION

COMM No one really believed that General Pastika – a mere policeman – could solve a crime of such complexity.

Most Indonesians were convinced the CIA was behind the bombs. For some it was convenient conspiracy theory.

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PASTIKA TAPE 2 15;04 some politicians say there are no terrorists in Indonesia. Some say that it is impossible.

Q. They refused to accept that there was a problem in Indonesia.

A. Yes.

COMM

40:44 – 40:53

But the evidence had a life of its own. Remnants of the mobile phone that triggered the bomb near the American consulate gave Pastika and Ashton their first major lead.

GRAHAM ASHTON We had the serial number of the phone and identified where it was purchased from and they gave witness accounts of the purchase and so we had identikit photos of the purchasers. So we had identikit pictures of the terrorist team being involved in the plot so it was useful for us in terms of gathering evidence.

PICTURE

PHOTOFIT IMAGES OF FACE BEING PUT TOGETHER

PICTURE

PHOTOFIT ALI IMRON AND AMROZI

COMM 41:17 – 41:33

The investigators brought in software from the Victorian State police that produced a cascade of variable faces. They created chillingly accurate pictures of the men who bought the mobile phone. Now they just had to find them

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SYNCH

GRAHAM ASHTON TAPE 28 09:12 It was probably three weeks after the blast and interestingly Made Pastika went to pray at the temple

PICTURE

TEMPLE PRAYERS

SYNCH

CUT and one of his subordinates rang him on his mobile phone and said ‘are you praying now for the success of the investigation General?’ and he said ‘well it worked because we have found this number on the chassis rail’.

42:04 – 42:13

The chassis of the suicide bomber’s white van was found in the roof across the road from the Sari Club. The police knew it would have an identification number.

PASTIKA

From this number we traced back the owners and then we come to the first suspect and that is Amrozi.

SCENE 4

THE BOMBERS

COMM

Amrozi, a 40 year old Muslim, was arrested. When Pastika’s men searched his house, they found receipts for large quantities of the explosive component potassium chlorate.

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SYNCH

Q did amrozi say anything when you arrested him,.

Yes, yes, after twenty hours of interrogation he confessed

GRAPHIC BIOG

AMROZI GRAPHICS BIOG

42:53 – 42:59

AMROZI’s role was to supply the bomb-making chemicals and the van.

PASTIKA I was so wondered by this Amrozi which looked like very innocent, could do that very cruel thing. That’s amazing why there is the people like this and he just smiled at the time and that makes me crazy.

Q. 11:34 HE JUST SMILED Yes, he smiled, when he showed me the first time and what he said, he wondered how the police can catch me, that’s the question in his mind.

PICTURE

SATELLITE MOBILE TELEPHONE TRACKING/DATAMINING

COMM 43:41 – 43:48 Amrozi named names – including those of his two brothers. The hunt was on.

GRAHAM ASHTON 29:47 We were tracking mobile telephones and went around the country with laptops compiling analysis on intel as they went, forming a picture of where these people were, where they were going

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44:08 – 44:28 One by one Ashton and Pastika tracked them down. These are the Bali bombers. We have exclusive access to the remarkable interviews with them filmed on Death Row. They speak with extraordinary candour about the motivation for their killing.

AMROZI TAPE 5 PAGE 1 We made the decision to bomb Bali because our target was Americans. We loathe Americans and their allies who have created trouble around the world

IN: 00:01:47:15 bagaimana-bagaimana urusan awalnya kami apa itu kami mau ngebom di bali itu, akhirnya kita mengambil keputusan karena aa sebetulnya kita itu targetnya itu kan memusuhi Amerika. Memusuhi orang Amerika dan antek-anteknya yang sementara membuat onar di seluruh dunia OUT: 00:02:06:11

GRAPHIC BIOG

44:55 – 45:08

This is Muklas – the mastermind of the operation. He’d been at the Thailand meeting when Hambali gave him his orders.

He’d fought against the Russians in Afghanistan - alongside Osama Bin Laden.

SYNCH

Muklas tape 12 page 12 Allah granted me the chance to meet Sheik Osama Bin Laden in 1987.

IN: 00:37:06:07 - diketemukan oleh Allah dengan Syekh Osama Bin Laden pada tahun 87 OUT: 00:37:12:16

We met face to face while we were staying in caves. He was leading the war against Russia. He led the war by himself. His strength was that he went into the battlefield with all his wealth. He was a real leader. He’s the one human being I very much adore in

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this life.

IN: 00:37:15:00 bukan tatap muka aja. Sama-sama di gua berbulan-bulan. Ketika itu beliau memimpin perang memang, menghadapi Rusia. Beliau memimpin perang sendiri. Kelebihan beliau ini pergi ke medan perang dengan harta, ajudannya dan memimpin sekali,ya. Maka beliau termasuk manusia yang saya idolakan dalam hidup ini OUT: 00:37:37:22

PASTIKA 14:20 DID YOU MEET MUKLAS?

Yes, I met him

AND HOW DID HE STRIKE YOU?

No I did not want to talk to him. I met him and I saw this man and then I go. I let me sub-ordinate I didn’t want to interview him.

14:39 WHY DIDN’T YOU WANT TO INTERVIEW HIM, GIVEN HIS POSITION?

Sometimes even though I try to be not emotional but for this man I cannot do it so I must stay away.

COMM

46:20 – 46:24

Muklas appointed Imam Samudra to be his field commander.

PASTIKA This man is so cold blooded, very silent, not much talking and it’s very hard to get his confession

SAMUDRA BIOGRAPHY

46:42 – 46:53 Samudra is another Afghan veteran. His role was to recce the targets for ‘White Meat’ – Americans. He didn’t realise the tourists are mainly Australians.

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SAMUDRA TAPE 1B PAGE 11 The Sari Club was frequented by more than 90 percent Westerners. They were our target, these foreigners. We calculated the time to ensure that we didn’t harm any of our own. We calculated it so that we could minimise the number of locals killed. That’s why we didn’t do it after midnight because lots of local beggars and drivers come out then. But there is always human error. There is no perfect military operation.

The Sari Club was frequented by more than 90 percent Westerners. They were our target, these foreigners. We calculated the time to ensure that we didn’t harm any of our own. IN: 00:23:39:11 Sari Klub itu ya memang ternyata katakanlah 90 keatas ternyata betul orang-orang bule, begitu target kita. Kita bisa fasih, waktu-waktunya, terutama jangan sampai, kita semua sudah ngitung, jangan sampai korban itu menimpa keluarga sendiri. Kita sudah itung.OUT:00:23:59:17 We calculated it so that we could minimize the number of locals killed. IN: 00:24:09:18 Kita meminimalkan dan mengurangi atau meniadakan sama sekali agar orang lokal nggak terbunuh. OUT: 00:24:15:22 But there is always human error. There is no perfect military operation. IN: 00:24:17:59 Tetap saja ternyata ada human error. Di dunia ini nggak ada operasi militer yang sempurna. Pasti ada human error. OUT: 00:24:23:16 AMROZI IN CELL

47:34 – 47:36

Muklas’ younger brother is Amrozi.

SYNCH

Amrozi tape 5 page 7 The preparations started in September. I bought one ton of potassium chlorate. I already had a ton sitting at home but that had been ordered by someone else so I couldn’t use that. Then I bought the aluminium and sulphur on the 23rd and I started sending it to Bali. I remember, I sent it on about five buses.

AMROZI TAPE 5 PAGE 7 IN: 00:13:56:11dari persiapan itu tanggal 18 September itu saya beli, saya beli aa KCLO3 satu ton. Tapi sebetulnya di rumah sudah ada satu ton. Tapi cuma itu karena urusan untuk berkenaan dengan Ambon, pesanan orang, jadi kita ndak mau pake kan?OUT: 00:14:17:18

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Preparation started in September. But actually I have 1 tonne at home. But because that’s for Ambon, and because that’s been ordered by a differe t party, so we can ‘t use others’, right?) I bought the aluminium and sulphur on the 23rd. IN: 00:14:26:00 tanggal 23, 23, beli almiuniumnya dengan belerang.OUT: 00:14:29:01 IN: 00:14:40:14 tak kirimkan lima tahap OUT:00:14:42:13 I sent it in five phase).

COMM

48:06 – 48:13

Five days before the attack, the cell travelledto Bali. Amrozi prepared the suicide jacket with Dr Azahari who’d been present at the Thailand meeting.

AMROZI PAGE 13 TAPE 5 out is 00:30:28:00

It was just a regular vest, assembled to have pockets for the explosives. Anyone could have made it…with lots of pockets like the ones in the movies.

AMROZI TAPE 5 PAGE 13 IN: 00:30:06:10 yang bikin rompi itu tuh saya tau. Itu bikin rompi itu ya Abdul Matin sama dokter Azhari. Mbikinnya itu kan rompi biasa, dikasih saku-saku untuk. Siapapun bisa mbkin. Dikasih saku-saku kayak di film itu lho, yang muter gini, untuk nih, tempat bomnya itu. OUT: 00:30:28:00 . That was just a regular vest, assembled to have pocktes for.. anyone could’ve made that - chuckle while gesture with hands. with lots of pockets like the ones in movies, to turn around for this, that bomb place Dikasih saku-saku kayak di film itu lho, yang muter gini, untuk nih, tempat bomnya itu.

48:35 – 48:49

Ali Imron is also brother to both Amrozi and Muklas.

On the day of the bombing, he was in charge of the two suicide bombers – both Indonesians - known as Iqbal 1 and Iqbal 2.

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SYNCH

Tape 9. page 7

I headed out at around 10:25, driving the L300 van filled with the bomb. On my left was Iqbal 1 who would take over the wheel. Beside him sat Iqbal 2 who would wear the vest bomb to Paddys.

Samudra said that they were prepared to drive as part of the holy bombing. But apparently they couldn’t drive. They could only drive in a straight line. So at this point there was already a misunderstanding.

I had to drive the van to the junction at Legian

As the van was quite heavy, I drove very slowly. I told Iqbal 1 to take over on the drivers seat. I then stepped down out of the van.

As it drew close to the Sari Club, Iqbal 2, the one with the suicide vest, also got down from the van. He then walked towards Paddy’s pub.

PICTURE

FLAMES MUSIC.

PICTURE

50:15 – 50:23

Back at the Canberra control room, Australian Federal Police officers talk to their team in Bali, preparing for the bomber’s trials.

UPSOF You indicated some Federal police witnesses may be required.

50:32 – 50:38

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The AFP finds itself leading the regional fight against a terrorism it little understands.

MICK KEELTY AFP COMMISSIONER Fighting terrorism will be a generational fight, it won’t be a sprint, it will be a long term thing.

That someone believes that they will achieve something out of killing themselves is almost incomprehensible to us as Christians or as westerners but need to understand a lot more about that. We need to understand the drivers behind this so we can re-educate those people.

51: 15 - 51:20 If convicted Ali Imron and his brothers face death by firing squad.

Q. IF THE BOMBERS ARE IN THE END EXECUTED ISN’T THAT JUST CREATING MARTYRS. PASTIKA TAPE 1 38:15 That also we worry about. That is on the other side of the opinion of the public. Most of our people here want them sentenced to death penalty, but the other thing we have to consider is that if we do that right now, those people will become martyrs and this is also very dangerous.

MUKLAS TAPE 1A (PAGE 4) Even if I am sentenced to death, that can be considered a holy war, because of our beliefs. So no matter what’s done to us, we’ve already surrendered to Allah.

IN: 00:07:44:15 Kalau mau dihukum mati, ….itu bisa dinilai.. karena itu sabillilah, keyakinan kita. Jadi mau dibikin apa saja,

kami sudah serahkan kepada Allah SWA OUT: 00:07:52:20

BALI BOMBERS IN CELLS

COMM

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52:19 – 52:28 Muklas, Samudra and, Amrozi are to be executed. The verdict is welcomed by those who seek a holy death.

AQ TRAINING VIDEO

52:42 – 52:59

But killing the Bali bombers will have little impact in this global war.

Like the 15,000 others who have trained in al Qaeda’s camps, they are mere foot soldiers in an invisible army that is single minded and ruthless.

FBI INTERROGATION

The Source stated that there was special training in assassinations. The techniques used were sniper, poison, bombs and remote control devises. On the specialist explosives course, he learned how to make explosives mixed with germs.

COFER BLACK 14:04:50 Al Qaeda is a rag tag group of misfits who are being hunted by the world’s law enforcement security services. They have no justification for their objectives or their methods. It’s not an army, it’s a group of criminals whose stock in trade is to kill innocent people

PASTIKA WHAT CAN AMERICA DO DO YOU THINK TO MAKE IT LESS LIKELY THE APPEAL TO YOUNG MUSLIMS WILL BE HEEDED.

That’s a very political question I think but ok I think as a human being I think America should should moderate their waring politics to settle all these things, all these people. Llet Americas not also think black and white like the terrorists. Q. LIKE THE TERRORISTS.

Like the terrorists.

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54:53 – 54:56

Months behind bars have given Ali Imron time to reflect. He is spared the firing squad.

SYNCH

ALI IMRON PAGE 14 TAPE 8 00;35;55;02 – 36’55;07

If this was a crusade, it shouldn’t be such a blood bath, not like the Sari Club. They weren’t the enemy, they weren’t soldiers prepared to go to war and therefore prepared to die. So when I was caught I gave in. I didn’t resist because I know, I realise what I’ve done. I feel guilty. What I did was wrong and I regret it. It’s fair to say I am ashamed. I can’t say that I have no regrets. What’s the point? You can’t deny it to your conscience.

OCEAN PICTURES

At the end of the investigation, Ashton and Pastika handed the crime scene back to the local Hindu community. They scooped up the earth and released the spirits of the dead to the waves.

202 people died in the Bali bombs.

Since then, more than 30 suicide bombers have killedaround 200 men, women and children – across the world.

FBI INTERROGATION WITH SOURCE BEING SHOWN PIX OF HAMBALI

56:34 – 57:17

But Australia, and most of South East Asia are now united in the battle against terrorism. And it’s having results. Al Ghozi was killed in a police shoot out last October and Hambali was finally tracked down.

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Hambali’s allegedly told his American interrogators that he handed control of Jemaah Islamiya, to Dr Azahari who made the Bali bombs.

PICTURE FROM HAMBALI TO DR AZAHARI

Dr Azahari – is still out there – somewhere - waiting to strike again.

and so to is Osama Bin Laden – threatening the destruction of the West from his hiding place.

COFER BLACK Q. WHERE IS OSAMA BIN LADEN

He’s in that place I don’t want him to be I am absolutely optimistic that he will be rendered to justice. As with most criminals, you know, sooner or later, we will get you. There is a lot of effort going into this. His days are numbered.

57:44 – 57:54

But even taking out Osama Bin Laden is unlikely to stem the tide of recruits waiting to offer their lives for the cause of Jihad in SE Asia’s fertile breeding ground.

AMROZI Even when I’m dead our sons and grandsons will continue the struggle. My death does not mean the struggle is over. There will be a thousand more Amrozi’s they may have different names but they will behave like Amrozi.

PICTURE

CHATTER ON THE AIRWAVES

As the third world war stretches before us, more chatter on the airwaves is guaranteed.