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As Julian Assange turns 52 today in a prison in London, a reminder of what Wikileaks under him revealed: France's🇫🇷 Sarkozy pushed for bombing Libya🇱🇾 in 2011: -to “gain a greater share in Libyan oil production”. Sarkozy was negotiating to reserve as much as 35% of Libya’s oil industry -to stop Muammar Gaddafi’s ‘gold Dinar plan’, an indigenous gold-backed African currency to replace the French CFA Franc -to improve his political position domestically -to stop the decline of French influence in Africa -to reassert the French military in the world

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