. >> avi, the security guard, has a bad feeling when 21-year-old asif hanik walks up. >> the guy wasittle bit too quick in his pace. suicide bombings were going on all the time at that particular time. so we both looked at each other and froze. >> hanik is strapped with plastic explosives when avi kicks him in the chest to keep him from entering the crowded bar. >> and the next thing i can barely remember is this guy stepping back up onto the sidewalk and yelling. >> as hanik stumbles backwards, he blows himself up. the explosion sends jack flying into the front window. >> the next thing i know i'm in the hospital and it is three days later. >> he's hurt but he's going to be fine. you saved a lot of people's lives that night. >> avi is critically wounded but is hailed as a national hero. >> who knows how many people would have been killed in that small space, so he saved literally a hundred lives. >> why mike's place? >> well, i think mike's place represents the best that this part of the world has to offer. >> just weeks earlier the suicide bombers at mike's place asif and omar reco