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Nicolas Sarkozy has a very big tank

January 12, 2009 | by Richard Gowan | More on Europe and Central Asia, Influence and networks, Middle East and North Africa, Off topic | No comments

We have noted Nicolas Sarkozy’s attraction to large domestic appliances (first his TV, then his telephone table…). So we are not surprised to see him, third from the left, atop a very large tank in Lebanon:



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