President Sarkozy brought up Tibherine Monks' affair to cover up botched arms' deal with Pakistan

In a bid to spare himself a damaging backlash from the bloody arms scandal involving France and Pakistan, French President Nicholas Sarkozy has ordered the reopening of the investigation into the kidnapping and brutal death of 6 French Monks in Algeria in 1996 ostensibly to divert attention from the French officials' grave lapses in the somber Pakistani affair.