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In reply to the discussion: Argentinian sociologist Atilio Boron: United States orders to capture Snowden, wherever and however [View all]flamingdem
(40,899 posts)Portugal is clear because it turns out they were having political strikes and didn't want Evo to land.
France has a statement about how they didn't know it was him, thought there were 2 planes, the plane was not in the correct time window for them to accept. Who knows.
Spain allowed refueling in Las Palmas, but this was not accepted the first time not sure why. They also received an extradictio request and this is where the miscommunication might have happened.
Italy I don't think I've read about them
Austria knew nothing about the plane and thus went through protocol of passport check and brief check of the plane. Remember it was not a Bolivian plane, it was a rented plane
So many areas of confusion. I think we'll eventually know what happened. In the meantime it's not a good idea to follow die presse, in my opinion