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Trial of former President Sarkozy sheds light on France’s back-channel talks with Libya’s Gadhafi

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FILE - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, greets Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival on Dec. 10 2007 at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
FILE - Debris of a French UTA jetliner seen in the desert of Niger, where the airliner crashed after exploding over the desert in September 1989. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)
FILE - Investigators inspect the nose section of the crashed Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 airliner in a field near Lockerbie, Scotland, Dec. 23, 1988. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, File)
FILE - Wrecked houses and a deep gash in the ground in the village of Lockerbie, Scotland, after the bombing of the Pan Am 103 in the village of Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver, File)
FILE - Bulgarian nurses Valentina Manolova Siropulo, left, Nasya Stoitcheva Nenova, second left, look on as Valia Georgieva Chervenisahka, right, hugs an unidentified man in front of the French presidential air plane after their arrival in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, July 24, 2007. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Libyan Col. Muammar Gadhafi arrives for a meeting with intellectuals at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, Dec. 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
FILE - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, welcomes French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Bab Azizia Palace in Tripoli, July 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
FILE - Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, foreground, visits the Chateau de Versailles, southwest of Paris, Dec. 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Patrick Kovarik, Pool, File)
FILE - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gestures with a green cane as he takes his seat behind bulletproof glass for a military parade on Sept. 1, 2009, in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

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FILE - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, greets Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival on Dec. 10 2007 at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)