[Ha'aretz] Barak Ravid - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner appealed to Israel for clemency for a Palestinian who plotted the assassination of former Israeli Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Salah Hamouri, 24, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who holds French citizenship, was arrested in 2005 after he and his friends had purchased weapons and ammunition. Hamouri confessed to planning the attack. Hamouri's mother, Denise, has led a public campaign in France to win his release, with the aid of Palestinian non-government groups.
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