Bali Bomb Probe Underway

Police forensic teams Sunday sifted through the debris left behind from coordinated bomb attacks on three crowded restaurants on Indonesia's resort island of Bali that killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 100 others.

At least three foreigners were confirmed killed in the attacks, which were carried out by suicide bombers, top anti-terror official says.

CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports that although no one has claimed responsibility for the bombings yet, experts say the attacks look like the work of the extremist group Jemaah Islamiyah, which claims links to al Qaeda and which has organized a series of terrorist attacks.

Saturday's attacks occurred almost three years to the day after Jemaah Islamiyah bombed a crowded Bali nightclub strip on Oct. 12, 2002, killing 202 people, most of them foreigners.

However, alleged Indonesian terror chief Abu Bakar Bashir had nothing to do with Saturday's bombings on Bali island, a spokesman for the imprisoned cleric said Sunday. Bashir is serving a two-year sentence for conspiracy in the 2002 attacks and foreign governments have long maintained he is Jemaah Islamiyah's spiritual leader.

Indonesian President Suslio Bambang Yudhoyono warned more strikes were possible.

"We will hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to justice," he said, said the president, who was scheduled to fly to Bali later Sunday to look at the devastation first hand.

The Bush administration offered Indonesia its help in going after those behind the bombings. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a statement that the U.S. stands with Indonesia in its work to get those responsible for the blasts.

A White House spokeswoman said the nation's deepest sympathy goes to the victims and their families. She said Indonesia should know the U.S. is ready to help "in any way."

The near simultaneous blasts ripped through two packed seafood cafes on Jimbaran beach and a three-story noodle and steak house in downtown Kuta, the site of the 2002 blasts.

Sanglah Hospital, near the island's capital Denpasar, which took over the task of identifying victims, said 25 people were killed and 101 others were being treated at six hospitals.

Two Australians and a Japanese person were killed, along with 12 Indonesians. Hospital officials were trying to identify the nationalities of the 10 other corpses in the morgue, the hospital said in a statement.

Among the injured were 49 Indonesians, 17 Australians, six Koreans, three Japanese and two Americans, a hospital official said, adding that the others had yet to been identified.

Early Sunday, police forensic experts were at the site of all three attacks, which were roped off.

The island's airport was quiet, with little immediate sign of the massive evacuation of foreign visitors that followed in the immediate aftermath of the 2002 bombings, which devastated the island's tourist industry.

"What happened yesterday will not make me leave," said holidaymaker Tony Abott, from Sydney, Australia. "I am staying until Wednesday as scheduled."

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice condemned the bombings in a statement. "The United States stands with the people and government of Indonesia as they work to bring to justice those responsible for these acts of terrorism. We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror," Rice said.

Western and Indonesian intelligence agencies have repeatedly warned the group was plotting more attacks despite a string of arrests. Last month, Yudhoyono said he was especially worried the extremist network was about to strike.

"I received information at the time that terrorists were planning an action in Jakarta and that explosives were ready," said the president, who was scheduled to go to Bali on Sunday to look at the devastation first hand.

The latest bombs went off at about 8 p.m. as thousands of diners flocked to restaurants on the bustling tourist island that was just starting to recover from the 2002 blasts.

Baradita Katoppo, an Indonesian tourist from Jakarta, said one of the bombs on Jimbaran beach went off in the Nyoman Cafe, where he was eating with friends. Five minutes later another explosion rocked a neighboring seafood restaurant.

"I could see other people sustained injuries," he said. "There was blood on their faces and their bodies. It was very chaotic and confusing, we didn't know what to do."

Witness, I Wayan Kresna, told the private El Shinta radio station he counted at least two dead and that many others were brought to a hospital.

"I helped lift up the bodies," he said, adding that many of the victims were foreigners. "There was blood everywhere."

About 18 miles away in Kuta, at almost exactly the same time, an explosion hit the three-story Raja noodle and steakhouse in a bustling outdoor shopping center. Smoke poured from the badly damaged building.

The bomb apparently went off on the restaurant's second floor, and an Associated Press reporter saw at least three bodies and five wounded people there. There was no crater outside the building, indicating the blast was not caused by a car bomb.

Saturday's attacks threaten to ruin a tourist boom on the mostly Hindu island, where hotels and restaurants have in the last 18 months reported that business had exceeded pre-2002 levels and that they were looking forward to a busy Christmas and New Year.

Tourism Minister Jero Wacik predicted a sharp drop in numbers, but said he hoped the island would bounce back.

Western and Indonesian intelligence agencies have repeatedly warned the group was plotting more attacks despite a string of arrests. Last month, Yudhoyono said he was especially worried the extremist network was about to strike.

Since the 2002 Bali blasts, Jemaah Islamiyah 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.

Ken Conboy, author of an upcoming book on Southeast Asian terrorism, said Saturday's bombings had all the hallmarks of Jemaah Islamiyah. "They saw the 2002 Bali bombing as their only true success because it inflicted foreign casualties, and the collateral damage weren't Muslims," he said.