Breaking: Did Edward Snowden Try to Sneak Out of Russia on the Bolivian President’s Plane?
Charlie Kaye of CBS News just tweeted a few minutes ago:
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Bolivian minister: President Morales’ plane rerouted to Austria on suspicion Snowden on board.
— Charlie Kaye (@CharlieKayeCBS) July 2, 2013
AFP is now reporting that there’s no Snowden in Vienna: AFP: Bolivia Leader in Vienna, but Not Snowden: Austria.
VIENNA — Bolivian President Evo Morales is at Vienna airport, but fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is not on board his plane, an Austrian foreign ministry official confirmed early Wednesday.
“President Morales will leave early Wednesday morning for La Paz,” the Bolivian capital, ministry spokesman Alexander Schallenberg told AFP. Austria did not know why Morales’s plane had landed there, he added.