Lots of dirt suddenly being tossed at Sarkozy - has he been ditched by the PTBs ?

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/report-claims-sarkozy-kadhafi-secret-nuclear-deal-164239422.html

A French magazine is claiming that President Nicolas Sarkozy and Libya's ex-strongman Moamer Kadhafi reached a "secret deal" to trade nuclear cooperation for the release of foreign medics.

Based on "confidential documents", the report to appear Wednesday in weekly Les Inrockuptibles emerged ahead of Sunday's run-off vote between Sarkozy and Socialist frontrunner Francois Hollande.

It came after Sarkozy, who has accused "biased" left-wing media of targeting him, said he would sue a website that claimed Kadhafi financed his 2007 campaign.

Neither the foreign ministry nor the presidency would comment on the report in Les Inrockuptibles, which the magazine said was based on diplomatic cables issued in the week before the medics' release.

The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, jailed eight years on charges of infecting children with the AIDS virus, were released on July 24, 2007 following French intervention.

Sarkozy travelled to Tripoli the day after their release, overseeing the signature of arms contracts and a nuclear cooperation accord and inviting Kadhafi to Paris later that year.

The magazine quoted a diplomatic cable received by France's then envoy to Tripoli, Jean-Luc Sibiude, on July 16 as saying he should "approach Libyan authorities at the highest level to submit a draft framework agreement on Franco-Libyan cooperation".

In a return cable two days later the envoy told Paris that Tripoli was particularly interested in "nuclear" cooperation, saying: "The Libyans were waiting for this signal, which meets a personal demand of Colonel Kadhafi," the magazine reported.

On the night of July 23, the ambassador received a new cable announcing that Paris had accepted a nuclear deal but noting that France would agree "only if the nurses and doctor are freed", the magazine said.

They were released the next day.

Speaking before a parliamentary commission in 2007, Sarkozy's then chief of staff Claude Gueant, now the interior minister, said there had been no "trade-offs" in ensuring the medics' release.

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http://www.france24.com/en/20120430-paris-prosecutors-inquiry-launched-sarkozy-shaming-gaddafi-file-election-campaign

Inquiry launched into Sarkozy Gaddafi finance claim

By FRANCE 24  (video)Paris prosecutors opened an inquiry Monday into claims by Nicolas Sarkozy that an investigative French website published a fake document purporting to prove that deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi funded the president’s 2007 election campaign.

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AFP - Prosecutors on Monday opened an enquiry after President Nicolas Sarkozy sued a website that claimed Moamer Kadhafi financed his 2007 presidential election, in the crucial final week before France returns to the polls.

Sarkozy’s complaint, submitted late Monday afternoon, targets the left-wing investigative website Mediapart, its publishing director Edwy Plenel and journalists Fabrice Arfi and Karl Laske, judicial officials said.
Arfi and Laske on Saturday co-signed an article that alleged the former Libyan dictator agreed to give 50 million euros ($66 million) to Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign.
The enquiry is to determine whether there is a case of “forgery and use of forged material”, and whether “false news has been spread”.
Sarkozy’s lawyer Thierry Herzog was not immediately available for comment.
Sarkozy has dismissed the document as a “crude forgery” and believes that he is relentlessly targeted by “biased” left-wing media.
“There’s a section of the press, of the media, and notably the site in question whose name I refuse to mention, that is prepared to fake documents, shame on those who have exploited them,” Sarkozy said.
Claims that Kadhafi financed Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign are not new, but Mediapart’s document bearing the signature of Libya’s former foreign intelligence chief Moussa Koussa is.
Koussa, who lives in Qatar, has said the "allegations are false".