Forcing down Evo Morales's plane was an act of air piracy

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98. 'The incident demonstrates...the Obama administration will go to any lengths to silence Snowden...

...who has exposed the NSA’s vast electronic surveillance of the American people and the world’s population." -- Peter Symonds

Bolivia accuses US of forced landing of presidential plane

By Peter Symonds
5 July 2013

The Bolivian government is planning a formal protest to the United Nations over the illegal actions of European countries in forcing the plane of President Evo Morales to make an emergency landing in Austria on Tuesday. The aircraft was brought down on suspicion that National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board.

Morales was returning to Bolivia after an energy summit in Moscow, when Portugal, Italy, Spain and France all denied his plane access to their airspace. An unnamed Austrian official told Associated Press that the plane had requested permission to land in Vienna because there was “no clear indication” that it had enough fuel to continue its flight.

Bolivia’s ambassador to the UN, Sacha Liorenti Soliz, told the media: “The decisions of these countries violated international law. We are already making ready procedures to denounce this to the UN secretary general … We are talking about the president on an official trip, after an official summit, being kidnapped.”

Liorenti bluntly accused the Obama administration of instigating the forced landing. “We have no doubt that it was an order from the White House,” he said. “By no means should a diplomatic plane with the president be diverted from its route and forced to land in another country.”

[font color="red"]After initial US denials of any involvement, State Department spokesman Jen Psaki admitted on Wednesday: “We have been in contact with a range of countries that had a chance of having Snowden land or travel through their countries.” But she refused to name the countries, or divulge when the discussions took place.[/font color]

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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/05/snow-j05.html

Incredible things, what those socialists like Morales are up to...universal health care, education, work, housing...