Bomb inquiry threatens to embroil Sarkozy

Article reports that for almost seven years, French investigators made little headway as they sought those responsible for a 2002 bombing in Karachi that killed 11 French naval engineers. The attack on the employees of the company DCN was presumed to be the work of al-Qaeda.

The killings were linked to commission payments being paid by the then state-owned shipbuilder DCN to intermediaries in a 1994 deal negotiated by the government in Paris to sell three French submarines to Pakistan.

Now new light has been cast on the issue and a possible scandal with political implications has emerged.

France24, 4.7.09: France urged to reveal 2002 Pakistan attack files http://www.france24.com/en/20090704-france-urged-reveal-2002-pakistan-attack-files

France24, 19.6.09: Probe on French engineers’ killings focuses on submarine money http://www.france24.com/en/20090619-pakistan-france-probe-2002-killing-engineers-karachi-submarine-money-commission

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