Anger over the US ordering European nations to reroute President Evo Morales’ plane continues to grow in Bolivia, with Morales warning that his nation may close America’s embassy in his nation in response.
The plane was forced to land in Vienna and searched on suspicion that whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board. He wasn’t, but the idea that they could force a president’s plane to land even if he had been is controversial, to say the least.
That Snowden wasn’t even there makes it an even bigger embarrassment, and the blame for that reportedly falls in the lap of US Ambassador to Austria William Eacho, who is said to have been “certain” of Snowden’s presence and convinced Austrian officials to forcibly search the plane after Morales explicitly denied them permission.
The scandal around the move against Morales has grown quite a bit, and has grown even more bizarre with the revelation that Morales’ plane wasn’t even flying out of the same northern Moscow Airport that Snowden is currently stranded in, but rather came out of Vnukovo Airport, to the city’s southwest.
Good for the Bolivian people, is about time for rest of the world to act against Neo fascism.
So, the governments of Germany, France, Austria and God know who else is run by the US ambassador? Europeans remind me of the term Europussies.
Just do it…Don't let warmonger Amerika control you!
Make you wonder if the US is going to make some diplomatic blunder and drone a passenger plane out of the sky thinking Snowden is on board, well they can always blame Moammar Gadhafi if it happen.
I wonder what would have happenend if he HAD been on board. That would have caused things to hit the fan rather fiercely. Do "leaders" except Putin think more than a move ahead? Guess not, a lifetime occupied with office politics doesn't beat a KGB education.
From the BBC, the US running dog lackeys speak and simultaneously deny and confirm everything.
"They told us they were sure… that he was on board," Mr Garcia-Margallo (Spanish foreign minister) told Spanish television, without indicating who "they" are.
"And so the reaction of all the European countries that took measures – whether right or wrong – was because of the information that had been passed on. I couldn't check if it was true or not at that moment because it was necessary to act straight away."
Mr Garcia-Margallo denied reports that Spain – along with France, Portugal and Italy – had closed its airspace to the plane.
He said the delay in Austria meant the flight permit had expired and had to be renewed, so there was "no need to apologise".
Mr Garcia-Margallo's comment is the first official recognition by the European states that the incident with Mr Morales' plane was connected with the Snowden affair.
France earlier apologised for the plane incident, blaming it on "conflicting information".
What I cannot understand is why the Austrians did not, when Eacho appeared wherever it was he appeared for the purpose of shoving his finger in an Austrian's face, chicken-wing him, walk him to the door, and kick him in the ass as he went back onto the street.
One would think that the US govt would be embarrassed by its mistake.
But I think US govt employees are so wrapped up in their superiority that they are incapable of embarrassment. USA! USA!
Yes, do it. Bust Uncle "Sam" Buttinski in the International chops !
I guess you shouldn't believe everything you hear when you are ease dropping on phone conversations or reading someone's email. Next thing you know someone has got you into an embarrassing situation.