Update: 10/09/2011 - hostages - Nicolas Sarkozy - Osama bin Laden
Bin Laden planned to use hostages to discredit Sarkozy
Osama bin Laden planned to use al Qaeda-held French hostages in North Africa, possibly by killing them, to discredit Nicolas Sarkozy ahead of France’s 2012 presidential election, a radio station said on Friday.
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