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A man accused of involvement in last year’s bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta told police that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden funded the attack with Australian currency, a police transcript said. A package containing some 10,000 aud in cash was delivered by courier to Malaysian bomb-maker Azahari Husin before the attack that killed 11 people, the transcript of an Indonesian police interrogation of a suspect named Rois, alias Iwan Dharmawan, showed. Parts of the transcript, shown to an Agence France-Presse reporter here, showed Rois as having said Azahari had told him of the payment. Rois is on trial in Jakarta on terrorism charges in connection with the attack. Full Story