Posted on 06/24/2013 3:50:13 AM PDT by RummyChick
Ex-CIA contractor, Edward Snowden’s plane to Cuba will pass through US airspace, an Interfax source reports. Washington has an extradition notice against Snowden on charges of espionage and could intervene if the plane enters US jurisdiction.
Aeroflot flight SU150, leaves Moscow at 14:04 local time (11:04 GMT) and will fly through US airspace a couple of kilometers from the coast of New York on its way to Havana, reported Russian news agency Interfax, citing a source in Sheremetevo airport air traffic control. Snowden has checked in for the flight and there are two seats under his name (17A and 17C), reports the Associated Press, citing Aeroflot. The plane has finished boarding and Snowden has not been seen on board.
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Heh. If he’s smart, and if WikiLeaks is working with him, they’d charter a jet to wherever he’s planning on going.
I don’t think Ecuador has made a final decision on whether or not to grant him asylum, as per his request, so he may stay put for awhile until that decision is made one way or another.
A so-far successful attempt by the State-Run Media and Obama to make Snowden the story, instead of NSA’s spying on US citizens.
> Washington has an extradition notice against Snowden on
> charges of espionage
Meanwhile, Moscow has had a warrant for the arrest of George Soros for currency manipulation since 2005.
I wonder if they can work out a deal.
Nah.
Barry would never give Georgie Porgie over to the Russians for a pipsqueak like Snowden, even if it was for purported security of the U.S.
Does Edward Snowden’s Flight From Hong Kong Make Him A Defector? Asylum Seeker? Fugitive Whistleblower?
I have a feeling this whole thing with Snowden is just another manufactured distraction while our Senators sell out the country to a foreign invasion. Drudge is the only one who has the sell out on his headlines, every other paper is Snowden or the Wallenda tightrope walk.
The Kremlin said Monday that it won’t intervene in the case of former U.S. government contractor Edward Snowden and that Russia had no advance knowledge of his arrival from Hong Kong on Sunday.
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A picture of Edward Snowden on a Chinese news website in Beijing.
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that a decision about holding Mr. Snowden and sending him back to the U.S. to face charges wasn’t a matter for the Kremlin.
“It is not a question for us,” Mr. Peskov told The Wall Street Journal. “We don’t know what his plans are and we were unaware he was coming here.”
Russian state media, citing an official in the government’s security apparatus, said authorities have no legal grounds to detain and send Mr. Snowden back to the U.S.
They sure do go out to get you when you upset an Obama apple cart.
You would think he was public enemy number one instead of a guy who saw a wrong being done and blew the whistle.
Russia says it has no authority to expel Snowden; Kerry: ‘deeply troubling’
By Kathy Lally, Anthony Faiola and Jia Lynn Yang, Updated: Monday, June 24, 6:55 AM E-mail the writers
MOSCOW — Despite a direct request from the United States to return Edward Snowden to U.S. soil to face charges of leaking government secrets, Russian officials said Monday that they had no legal authority to detain the fugitive former government contractor, who arrived in Moscow on Sunday and was seeking asylum in Ecuador, reportedly by way of Havana.
News services said Snowden was expected to board an Aeroflot flight to Havana, scheduled to depart Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport at 6:05 a.m. Eastern time Monday. But reporters on board the flight said on Twitter that he had not been spotted among the passengers.
“They’ve just locked the doors of the plane, #Snowden is NOT on this plane!!!” tweeted Egor Piskunov, a reporter with Russia’s government-financed RT. It was still possible, however, that Snowden was on board but out of sight of the journalists, or wearing a disguise.
Vladimir Lukin, Russia’s human rights ombudsman and a former ambassador to the United States, told the Interfax news agency that Russia had no authority to expel Snowden, as Washington was asking it to do. Russian officials said travelers who never leave a secure transit zone inside an airport -—which means not crossing passport control—are not officially on Russian soil. Snowden did not have a Russia visa, several officials said, and therefore could not leave the transit zone.
In addition, Russia and the United States do not have an extradition treaty.
“The Americans can’t demand anything,” Lukin said, referring to the international saga dismissively. “Detective stories are good bedtime reading.”
My colleague Miriam Elder didn’t manage to get on that plane to Cuba – but she’s very glad, since it seems Edward Snowden never got on it either. I just spoke to her.
She said Aeroflot officials had told her “with a little smirk” that they had been expecting Snowden too.
But Miriam pointed out that Snowden had never actually been sighted in Moscow, and there was actually no real evidence that he had ever been in Russia at all.
Meanwhile a planeload of journalists are now off to spend the day in Cuba …
The CIA know where he is...
I’m willing to sacrifice Snowden to see Soros get arrested. Putin should send those extradition papers to the White House right now.
ian bremmer @ianbremmer
The most famous empty chair since Eastwood’s. #Snowden pic.twitter.com/wrPjAKdbHz
I think this was all a wild-goose hunt....he ends up in Iceland no matter what happens. There’s daily flights out of Saint Petersburg to Iceland via Icelandic Air.
He may not even be in Russia. No one has actually spotted him according to The Guardian.
Times are so crazy you cant tell fact from fiction anymore. First pork laced ammo this morning now this...
I’m with you on that - meanwhile they’re about to Balkanize this country while we’re following some ideological, gullible, self-aggrandizing yute whose being manipulated by those he’s always wanted to impress.
He had a choice to stay anonymous but his ego got in the way.
Former CIA officer and whistleblower Edward Snowden can board the next Moscow-Havana flight, said a source familiar with the situation.
“He’s probably got another ticket also through Cuba, as there are no direct flights from Moscow to Caracas or Quito. In the meanwhile Snowden can remain in the transit area for however long he wishes,” - said the source.
Voice of Russia, Interfax
http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_06_24/Snowden-likely-to-board-next-Moscow-Havana-flight-5521/
He could be like Tom Hanks in that movie about the guy who stayed in the airport for a long time ..
He should head for New Jersey. I understand they have no extradition agreements with the United States.
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