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Indonesian gets 4 yrs over Australia embassy blast

An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced a man to four years in jail for his role in a suicide car bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta last year, the second conviction handed down over the attack. Agus Ahmad, 31, was found guilty by the South Jakarta district court of helping alleged bombing mastermind Azahari bin Husin prepare for the blast, which killed 10 people, all of them Indonesians. The three-judge panel said Ahmad helped Azahari, a Malaysian and senior figure in Jemaah Islamiah, an al Qaeda-linked network, as well as another defendant, Iwan Dharmawan alias Rois, transport explosive materials in July 2004. Full Story