Two bomb blasts ripped through popular tourist areas on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday, killing at least 21 people and wounding 85, officials said. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono condemned as terrorism the nearly simultaneous blasts, which come three years after militants linked to Al Qaeda bombed two nightclubs in Bali, killing 202 people, mainly foreign tourists. Police confirmed two bomb blasts near separate cafes packed with evening diners, one in Kuta Beach and the other at Jimbaran Beach, while local Metro TV said there had been four blasts, two each at both places. Officials at Bali's Sanglah hospital said 21 dead had been brought in. They included one Australian and a Japanese national. People were crying and looked shocked, television pictures showed. Wounded Indonesian victims sat on the pavement, while foreigners appeared to be in panic. Yudhoyono said it was too soon to blame anyone for the attacks, which security experts said bore the hallmarks of Jemaah Islamiah, a network seen as the regional arm of Al Qaeda and blamed for a series of attacks against Western targets, including the 2002 Bali blasts. They have launched roughly one major attack each year since then. "This is clearly a terrorist act . We will catch the perpetrators and punish them," Yudhoyono told an impromptu news conference in Jakarta, adding he would go to Bali on Sunday.
