It has an Outsports connection, as several Aussie footballers were injured. I don't know if that means soccer-type football, or Aussie Rules football.

Madness.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/13/...4222664046.html

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Seven Australians identified among 187 dead

AT A GLANCE
What: Two major deadly explosions in a holiday resort.
Where: Padi bar and the Sari Club at Kuta beach, Bali.
When:11pm (0100 Sunday AEST), as the clubs were filling to capacity.
Who: At least 182 killed, including many foreigners, and 132 injured.
How: Police confirm it was a car bomb placed in a Kijang, a jeep-like vehicle.

Air evacuation operation on
At least three RAAF Hercules aircraft will bring survivors of the Bali nightclub explosion back to Australia for medical treatment overnight, a defence spokesman said. The first carrying 30 burns patients is scheduled to arrive at Darwin airport at 0130 CST (0200 AEST Monday), the spokesman said.

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League star Salvatori's wife missing

The wife of former Eastern Suburbs and Test rugby league player Craig Salvatori remained missing tonight after the bomb blast that killed more than 180 people in Bali.

Kathy Salvatori was in Kuta's nightclub strip at the time of the blast overnight but had not been seen since, said Craig Salvatori's mother, Dianne. Salvatori had left the nightclub area about two hours before the blast but his wife stayed on, his mother said.

Burn victims to arrive in Darwin tonight

Two planeloads of up to 60 burns victims who survived the Bali nightclub explosion were expected to reach Royal Darwin Hospital tonight. The first Royal Australian Air Force Hercules carrying casualties was expected to arrive in Darwin, the closest Australian capital to Bali, around midnight CST (0030 AEST).

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Al-Qaeda's South-East Asian network Jemaah Islamiyah was responsible for the terrorist attack on Bali, a leading expert on the group said tonight.

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Traumatised foreign tourists - many covered in blood or with horrific burn injuries - stumbled around the scene looking for loved ones or fled hotel rooms for the safety of the beaches.

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Describing the injuries, Foster said: "There's a lot of shrapnel. People are having things sewn up. There are some serious head injuries." Britain's ambassador to Jakarta, Richard Gozney, told BBC that initial reports indicated "six or seven" British nationals were injured in the blast.

Bars packed with Aussies
The bars were packed with Australians, many of them footballers from NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia on end-of-season tours.

The blasts come just weeks after the United States reopened its diplomatic missions in Indonesia following a shutdown over the September 11 anniversary caused by fears of new attacks by the al-Qaeda network.

Shortly after the blast at around 11pm (0100 Sunday AEST) last night at the Sari Club a second bomb exploded near the honorary US consulate on the island, without causing casualties. Nobody claimed responsibility.

"There are charred and mangled bodies everywhere, it is unbelievable," said French photographer Cyril Terrien at the scene. "I have never seen such an appalling thing in my life."
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This time of the year is the end of season football trips for all football codes & Bali is a popular destination for trips. There is one football team from Western Australia where 7 players are missing. Bali is also a popular destination for Australians. I was in Bali 6 months ago for a holiday. There are still many Australians missing. Now bombings so close to Australia. I it a very sad day for Australia

the Sturt foortball team (SANFL-adelaide-premiers - and my Adelaide team) were in Bali too. there are a lot of those guys injured. none dead thankfully.

very sad day indeed

I hearts go out to all of our Bali and Australian brothers and sisters. I hope justice comes to those responible for this cowardice act of terror.

Please keep us up-todate on what Australia is feeling and expressing.

Every detail is worse than the one that came before.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/14/...4222719974.html

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More accounts of the victims emerged this morning, with friends telling how five members of Sydney's Coogee Wombats rugby league team had died in the blast at the Sari and Padi nightclubs in Kuta.

Australian tells of five teammates dying
Australian Brett Patterson told today of how five members of the Coogee Wombats rugby league team died in the blast - while others missed death by seconds.

Mr Patterson, who was travelling with the players from Sydney, said 11 members of the amateur club were on holiday in Bali's Kuta beach when they decided to go to the Sari Club last night.

Seconds after some of the group had left the building, the two bombs exploded.

"They got to the corner and then it went off and they turned around and..." Patterson told PA, unable to finish.

The five left inside the club have been identified among the dead, he said.

Patterson was having dinner nearby and was about to join his friends for a drink when the blasts ripped through the area.

The 32-year-old spent the next hours trawling the eight nearby hospitals and the morgue in the capital Denpasar looking for his 26-year-old friend who is missing.

The two men are both from Dubbo in New South Wales and the young man's brother and two sisters have flown out from the town to help search for him.

Patterson said they were expecting the worst.

He described the scenes inside the morgue as "horrific".

"There's just bodies ... and torsos and limbs," he said.
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found out last night that the missing Sturt footballer was confirmed dead. his team mates were told as they stepped off the plane at the airport last night in front of the waiting media circus. unbeleivably insensitive journalism, photographing greiving friends the moment they find out something like that - and then trying to get an inteview out of them.

My heart goes out to any and all Australian Outsporters. The. U.S. stands by your side.

thanks puckman

Bomber and Crow, so sorry for your loss, friends. We share your grief and rage at this barbaric act.

Also reported missing is Jake Young, former Nebraska Cornhusker player. He was in Bali and his family have not heard from him.

Thanks everybody for your thoughts. It a very sad time Down Under. There are so many sportmens who have lost their lives who just went on a holiday to celebrate the end of the football season.

More coverage.

http://www.theage.com.au/issues/baliterror/index.html

We have 3 Bali-related threads going, that's 2 too many. I'll link this in the one that stays open. here's the one that's staying open.

Thanks for your understanding.

[ October 15, 2002: Message edited by: Tarkus ]