Spain Says It Was 'Told' Snowden on Bolivia Plane

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31. Except that it may be uncertain knowledge.

Transit zones are flexible. I read that the transit zone at Sheremetyevo was a small duty-free area and a Novotel wing.

But it includes another kind of hotel. And it includes detention areas.

These weren't accessible to the "Orwellian" newspaper story. In fact, often in countries like Russia where the rule of law and rule of man fuzz together in really nasty ways, the rules for one person are different from the rules for another. It depends on who's enforcing the rules and who the rules are being enforced upon.

There are non-Russian transit zones that include spaces far from the airport. Nothing precludes the Russian government from stipulating that some other area is also part of the transit zone as far as Snowden is concerned. Just as there was nothing precluding having the transit zone "narrowed down" for the reporter who authorities probably suspected showed up for a long layover for the purpose of ... well, tracking down Snowden.

What would keep Russian authorities from moving Snowden from Sheremet'evo over to Vnukovo, if they wanted to, all the while maintaining that he was in the "transit zone"? American "public knowledge"?