"The hard part for Snowden will be finding a route to freedom from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, where he arrived on June 23. The U.S. has pressured allies to deny airspace rights for any plane carrying the fugitive, who faces espionage charges for revealing classified American telephone and Internet surveillance initiatives.
"'It’s one thing to grant him asylum,' said Diego Moya-Ocampos, a Latin America analyst at IHS Global Insight in London. 'It’s a very different thing to make that effective.'
"Before disclosing the top-secret National Security Agency programs, Snowden fled to Hong Kong, which spurned a U.S. extradition request and let him travel to Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration has urged Snowden to leave as soon as possible, and leaders of Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua have indicated they’d be willing to take him in.
"President Barack Obama has ruled out trying to intercept Snowden’s plane and force it down. 'I’m not going to be scrambling jets' to go after a 'hacker,' Obama said at a June 27 news conference in Dakar, Senegal."
[SOURCE: Bloomberg]
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