Via Drudge:
DESTINATION: VENEZUELA — VIA RUSSIA, CUBA…
U.S. extradition request did ‘not fully comply with Hong Kong law’…
Snowden traveling with one other person, with surname Harrison…
Pardon petition hits 100,000; WH to reply?
Russia Today says he could be heading to Iceland, via Moscow:
Edward Snowden left Hong Kong for Moscow today. Snowden is reportedly traveling to Venezuela via Moscow and Cuba.
He is traveling with WikiLeaks legal advisers.
The New York Times reported:
The Hong Kong government announced on Sunday afternoon that it had allowed the departure from its territory of Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has acknowledged disclosing classified documents about United States government surveillance of Internet and telephone communications around the world.
The government statement said that Hong Kong had informed the United States of Mr. Snowden’s departure.
A Moscow-based reservations agent at Aeroflot, Russia’s national airline, said that Mr. Snowden was aboard flight SU213 to Moscow, with a scheduled arrival there a little after 5 p.m. Moscow time. The reservations agent said that Mr. Snowden was traveling on a one-way ticket to Moscow.
Mr. Snowden’s final destination was unclear, but there were signs that it might be beyond Moscow. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Mr. Snowden appeared to be making a connection in Moscow to another destination, but did not say where.
Russia’s Interfax news agency, citing a “person familiar with the situation,” reported that Mr. Snowden would remain in transit at an airport in Moscow for “several hours” pending an onward flight to Cuba, and would therefore not formally cross the Russian border or be subject to detention. Someone close to Mr. Snowden later told Interfax that he planned to continue on to Caracas, Venezuela.
UPDATE: Snowden is heading to Ecuador.
