There have been reports of 3 bomb blasts in Bali. One in Kuta and two in Jimbaran. Details are still very sketchy. I’ll update as more information is known.

The Indonesian television is showing more video that will likely never make it to the big networks – always gruesome when they do this (pools of blood on the floor, etc). There are conflicting reports coming in from the local stations that it was 6 bombs, not 3.

This is all a bit of deja vu for all of us over here – 2002 wasn’t that long ago. What a year for Indonesia.

From CNN –

Several explosions occurred almost simultaneously Saturday in tourist areas of Bali island, causing casualties, police and a private Indonesian radio station said. A witness told the radio station at least two people were killed.

n 2002, bombings blamed on the al-Qaeda-linked militant group Jemaah Islamiyah killed 202 people, mostly foreigners, on Bali island.

Since then, the same extremist group has been tied to at least two other bombings in Indonesia, both in the capital, Jakarta.

Those blasts, one at the J.W. Marriott hotel in 2003 and the other outside the Australian Embassy in 2004, killed at least 23 people.

Western and Indonesian intelligence agencies have consistently warned that the group was plotting more attacks. Last month, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he was especially worried the network was about to carry out more attacks.