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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThen he will really be trapped!
Russian femme fatale proposes to Snowden on Twitter
Former Russian spy Anna Chapman has proposed marriage to NSA leaker on the lam Edward Snowden via Twitter, reports Daily Mail.
The flame-haired femme fatale was short and sweet: Snowden, will you marry me?!
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013%5C07%5C05%5Cstory_5-7-2013_pg9_1
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Then he will really be trapped! (Original Post)
jonthebru
Jul 2013
OP
But Snowden can't leave his hotel room and she can't access the locked hotel wing...
Tx4obama
Jul 2013
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Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)1. But Snowden can't leave his hotel room and she can't access the locked hotel wing...
.... so they will never meet - what a shame
See the two page article on the link below...
Trapped in Transit: Orwellian Moscow Airport Hotel
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Eastern Europe News Director Ian Phillips flew from his home base of Prague in the Czech Republic to Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport with the goal of getting to the bottom of the mystery of fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden. What followed was a surreal 21 hours.
The woman at the transit desk raises an eyebrow and stares at my flight itinerary, which includes a 21-hour layover in Moscow before a connection to Ukraine. "Why would ANYONE stay here in transit for so long? There are so many earlier connections you could have taken. This is strange behavior."
After a nearly two-hour wait inside the terminal, a bus picks me up only me from the transit area. We drive slowly across the tarmac, through a barrier, past electronic gates covered in barbed wire and security cameras.
The main part of the Novotel is out of bounds. My allotted wing feels like a lockup: You are obliged to stay in your room, except for brief walks along the corridor. Three cameras track your movements along the hallway and beam the images back to a multiscreen monitor. It's comforting to see a sign instructing me that, in case of an emergency, the locks on heavily fortified doors leading to the elevators will open.
When I try to leave my room, the guard outside springs to his feet. I ask him why room service isn't responding and if there's any other way to get food. He growls: "Extension 70!" I rile him by asking about the Wi-Fi, which isn't working: "Extension 75!" he snarls.
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Full two page article here: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/trapped-transit-orwellian-moscow-airport-hotel-19520480#.UdSvbqwkz58
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Eastern Europe News Director Ian Phillips flew from his home base of Prague in the Czech Republic to Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport with the goal of getting to the bottom of the mystery of fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden. What followed was a surreal 21 hours.
The woman at the transit desk raises an eyebrow and stares at my flight itinerary, which includes a 21-hour layover in Moscow before a connection to Ukraine. "Why would ANYONE stay here in transit for so long? There are so many earlier connections you could have taken. This is strange behavior."
After a nearly two-hour wait inside the terminal, a bus picks me up only me from the transit area. We drive slowly across the tarmac, through a barrier, past electronic gates covered in barbed wire and security cameras.
The main part of the Novotel is out of bounds. My allotted wing feels like a lockup: You are obliged to stay in your room, except for brief walks along the corridor. Three cameras track your movements along the hallway and beam the images back to a multiscreen monitor. It's comforting to see a sign instructing me that, in case of an emergency, the locks on heavily fortified doors leading to the elevators will open.
When I try to leave my room, the guard outside springs to his feet. I ask him why room service isn't responding and if there's any other way to get food. He growls: "Extension 70!" I rile him by asking about the Wi-Fi, which isn't working: "Extension 75!" he snarls.
-snip-
Full two page article here: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/trapped-transit-orwellian-moscow-airport-hotel-19520480#.UdSvbqwkz58
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)2. He may well marry her
They really share a lot! Then they'll get their tv show rolling. I think I'm rooting for this outcome
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)3. lolol. a 21st century international spy drama could end in no other way
If they get divorced, the court docket will be called Spy vs. Spy
Narkos
(1,185 posts)4. Ultimate honeypot