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It has been officially confirmed that Spain and France did not refuse airspace. It seems that the airspace restrictions announcement (by unknown source) was made to disrupt the flight, and create a halo of sovereign support towards limiting Snowden's freedom of movement.

As far as I'm concerned, the only US lapdog in Europe is the UK.

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Wait a second - do you have a trustworthy reference? Are you (or the media) suggesting that the US managed to infiltrate European air traffic control and hoaxed the bolivian plane to land?

I would not trust those official announcements, more likely that we'll have to dissect them carefully to see what they are not saying, e.g.: "We did not officially refuse them access to our airspace." (But the airspace was so crowded that due to security reasons no further planes could be allowed).

No, I'm not suggesting that "the US managed to infiltrate European air traffic control and hoaxed the bolivian plane to land?"

Perhaps you'd be good enough to enlighten us as to what you are trying to say. Because it is not obvious to me.

You mean like the official statements on how the US aren't listening to its citizen's phone calls? I don't think an 'official statement' holds any weight after what we've seen in the past few weeks.

I can too be a cynic, but the fact that the plane has landed in Spain to refuel should support the "official statement"

Sure - after being searched in Austria.

after the plane was searched and no Snowden was found.

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