Journalists await passengers of a flight from Hong Kong while trying to ascertain whether fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was aboard, at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, June 23, 2013. REUTERS-Sergei Karpukhin
Snowden Whereabouts Unknown As Russia Defies U.S. Pressure -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden's whereabouts were a mystery on Monday as Russia defied White House pressure to send him back to the United States and stop him fleeing Moscow on his globe-crossing escape from U.S. prosecution.
Snowden, whose exposure of secret U.S. government surveillance raised questions about intrusions into private lives, was allowed to leave Hong Kong on Sunday after Washington had asked the Chinese territory to arrest him on espionage charges.
The 30-year-old flew to Moscow as a transit stop before heading elsewhere, several sources said. But reports that he would fly to Cuba were put in doubt when witnesses could not see him on the plane, despite heightened security before take-off.
Ecuador, which has sheltered the founder of the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy group, Julian Assange, said it was considering Snowden's request for asylum and that human rights were it main concern. There are no direct commercial flights to Quito from Moscow.
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My Comment: He is either in the Ecuadorian embassy or in one of the transit areas at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. And while the U.S. is warning Russia to not let Edward Snowden go .... the bottom line is that he will soon be on his way to Ecuador.
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