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In reply to the discussion: Snowden has left the airport.... [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(106,611 posts)20. "*could* be relocated..."
"he did not believe..."
Yeah, my link is what I gave - he left in a taxi. Not an official bus taking him to where he has been told to go, like a refugee centre. He left with the woman from Wikileaks, who will not be able to stay at a refugee centre.
But if you want more:
A Russian lawyer said he had handed Snowden a document from Russia which enabled him to leave the airport for a safe location which would remain secret, and that he could now work and travel freely in the country of 142 million.
State television also showed a picture of him getting into a grey car at the airport driven by a young man in a baseball cap. Snowden wore a backpack and a blue button-up shirt.
"He is the most wanted man on planet Earth," Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Reuters. "He has to think about his personal security. I cannot tell you where he is going."
"He can live wherever he wants in Russia. It's his personal choice," he said.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/01/uk-usa-security-snowden-russia-idUKBRE9700NC20130801
State television also showed a picture of him getting into a grey car at the airport driven by a young man in a baseball cap. Snowden wore a backpack and a blue button-up shirt.
"He is the most wanted man on planet Earth," Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Reuters. "He has to think about his personal security. I cannot tell you where he is going."
"He can live wherever he wants in Russia. It's his personal choice," he said.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/01/uk-usa-security-snowden-russia-idUKBRE9700NC20130801
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The report said he could stay if he kept his mouth shut, and he had a one year visa.
MADem
Aug 2013
#2
Do you have a link that supports that assertion? All I've seen is stuff like this:
MADem
Aug 2013
#17
Your link also says he will only be allowed to stay in "designated" places, though:
MADem
Aug 2013
#22
Yes but I was providing that link so that you will know where we are getting it from when we
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#24
No. He absolutely does care about Bout. Bout is a tough guy, and he knows many things.
MADem
Aug 2013
#56
I will believe Reuters before I believe Wikileaks--they've been known to adjust the truth to suit
MADem
Aug 2013
#21
I'd post the appropriate rejoinder but delicate flowers would hide the thread.
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#12
I am very glad he released the information he released. I am disapointed he did it the way he did...
marble falls
Aug 2013
#4
Well, he is now subject to Russian law. That might not be such a good thing for him.
MADem
Aug 2013
#5
I think you are correct. His adventure is not over. He's now a puppet used by two powers.
marble falls
Aug 2013
#6
No matter what it'll be a great reality show - living in airports in unfreindly nations. Title:....
marble falls
Aug 2013
#49
It looks like Obama won't be raising a Stoli in Moskva with Pootie this September.
MADem
Aug 2013
#29
I think if Pootie could get two of his very valuable assets back, plus a couple of
MADem
Aug 2013
#58
"If Pootie had his way, he'd reunify the glorious USSR. He's not Santa, he ran the KGB."
Lugal Zaggesi
Aug 2013
#68
Of course they are "allowed" to travel all over the world, but way to miss the point I made.
MADem
Aug 2013
#76
How fortunate he is to find asylum in this bastion of free speech and open, tolerant government...
Agnosticsherbet
Aug 2013
#30
Better than returning to face the type of abuse that Bradley manning faced. n/t
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#32
I agree, I tried hiding the Snowden threads, but he is not always in the title.
we can do it
Aug 2013
#59