PARIS (AP) -– French President Nicolas Sarkozy met Saturday with a Libyan opposition leader amid questions about the death of a French military contractor in a Libyan rebel stronghold.

The meeting also came amid questions about the future U.S. role in the NATO air campaign against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's forces. U.S. officials in Washington met Friday with Mahmoud Jibril, top representative of the Libyan Transitional National Council, before he came to Paris.
Neither Sarkozy nor Jibril spoke after their meeting Saturday in Paris.
France has been a major backer of the rebels and has played a leading role in the NATO campaign.
The friendly French relationship with the rebels came in for a jolt this week, when the director of a French military contracting company was killed in the Libyan city of Benghazi — hours before he was supposed to meet with Jibril's transitional government.
The French government has been tightlipped about the circumstances surrounding the death of Pierre Marziali, head and founder of SECOPEX Conseil.