Snowden's fate unclear despite asylum offers (Gazette)

[kentuck]

http://gazette.com/snowdens-fate-unclear-despite-asylum-offers/article/feed/20073

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MOSCOW (AP) — Edward Snowden has found supporters in Latin America, including three countries who have offered him asylum. But many obstacles stand in the way of the fugitive NSA leaker from leaving a Russian airport — chief among them the power and influence of the United States.

Because Snowden's U.S. passport has been revoked, the logistics of him departing are complicated. Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia have made asylum offers over the past two days, but the three countries haven't indicated they would help Snowden by issuing a travel document, which he would need to leave Russia.

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Snowden, who on Saturday afternoon wasn't on an Interpol list of people for whom international arrest warrants have been issued, had booked a seat on a Havana-bound flight on June 24, but never made it.

Direct Havana flights, operated by Aeroflot from Moscow's main airport five times a week, are the easiest option of reaching Latin America from Moscow. But the Moscow-Havana's travel path passes over mainland U.S., raising the chances of it being grounded. There are other routes, but there is no assurance he'd have free passage.

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[Demit]

1. "U.S. officials have declined to comment on the grounding of Morales' plane."

"They said they won't give details about their conversations with European countries."


Such a transparent administration! If transparency is now defined as telling us citizens "it's none of your business."

[dtom67]

2. He will be captured....

He must have been out of his mind. He had to know he was throwing his life away. Sooner or later someone will give him up and it will be a bigger than the 4th of July.

Crazy.