NSA leaker Edward Snowden 'accepts asylum in Venezuela'

Jul 9, 2013 - 09:04
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NSA leaker Edward Snowden 'accepts asylum in Venezuela'
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Picture: The Guardian.

US INTELLIGENCE leaker Edward Snowden, who has been in a Moscow airport for more than two weeks, has agreed to take political asylum in Venezuela.

\"As was expected, Snowden agreed to (Venezuelan President Nicolas) Maduro's offer of political asylum,\" Alexei Pushkov, head of the Russian lower house of parliament's inteational affairs committee, said on Twitter.

The message did not clarify how he leaed of Mr Snowden's purported acceptance, but Mr Pushkov has acted as an unofficial point-man for the Kremlin on the Snowden affair.

Mr Snowden, who revealed details of a US intelligence program to monitor Inteet activity, came to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on June 23 and was believed to be headed for Cuba.

But he did not board that flight and has not been seen since. He is widely believed to be still in the airport's transit zone.

 

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