PARIS (Reuters) - A French defense ministry source denied on Monday a U.S. media report that a French intelligence ******r had defected to al Qaeda's branch in Syria and was being targeted for elimination by U.S. air strikes. McClatchy DC, a Washington DC-based news web site, reported citing several European intelligence sources that the former French ******r was the highest ranking defector to go over to al Qaeda and that coalition powers had failed to kill him in several air strikes. ...