快讯：接送“棱镜哥”斯诺登去冰岛政治避难的专机已经到 ...

据国际媒体路透社以及《南华早报》等报社报道，接送“棱镜哥”爱德华·斯诺登去冰岛政治避难的专机已经到达香港机场，明天就可以起飞，斯诺登今天还在香港忙着庆祝他三十岁的生日。飞机是中国提供的，是维基解密积极分子和冰岛商人思古文身先生用维基解密的捐款二十四万欧元（约两百多万人民币）在中国租借的。思古文身的IT公司Datacell是维基解密的合作伙伴，也负责在国际上为维基解密筹集捐款。斯诺登的香港签证还有一个月就要过期，将面临被香港警察逮捕驱逐出境。

奥巴马今天命名共和党人Jim Comey为FBI新头子。Jim Comey曾经在小布什时期因为反对NSA监听公民的计划而丢掉司法部长的乌纱帽，被迫去哥伦比亚大学当教书匠。Jim Comey的就职还需要参议院点头。FBI目前负责追捕爱德华·斯诺登。

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Edward Snowden Asylum: Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson Readies Private Plane To Iceland
Reuters  |  Posted: 06/20/2013 6:38 pm EDT

REYKJAVIK, June 20 (Reuters) - An Icelandic businessman linked to WikiLeaks said he has readied a private plane to take Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed secret U.S. surveillance programmes, to Iceland if the government grants him asylum.

"We have made everything ready at our end now we only have to wait for confirmation from the (Icelandic) Interior Ministry," Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson told Reuters. He is a director of DataCell, a company which processed payments for WikiLeaks.

"A private jet is in place in China and we could fly Snowden over tomorrow if we get positive reaction from the Interior Ministry. We need to get confirmation of asylum and that he will not be extradited to the U.S. We would most want him to get a citizenship as well," Sigurvinsson said.

Neither a WikiLeaks spokesman nor the Icelandic government were immediately available for comment.

Snowden, a former employee of contractor Booz Allen Hamilton who worked in an NSA facility in Hawaii, made world headlines this month after providing details of the programmes to the Guardian and Washington Post and fleeing to Hong Kong.

Earlier this week, WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said a middleman had approached him on behalf of Snowden to seek asylum in Iceland.

The Icelandic government, which has declined to say whether they would grant asylum to Snowden, confirmed it had received the message from Hrafnsson.

Birgitta Jonsdottir, a lawmaker for the Pirate Party in Iceland which campaigns for Internet freedom, said the only way for Snowden to travel to the Nordic country would be to have Icelandic citizenship.

Snowden has mentioned Iceland as a possible refuge.

Iceland has a reputation for promoting Internet freedoms, but Snowden has said he did not travel there immediately from the United States because he feared the country of 320,000 could be pressured by Washington.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over allegations of sex offences, visited Iceland several times in the run-up to some of the website's major releases. Assange denies any wrongdoing.

WikiLeaks and DataCell won a ruling this year in Iceland's Supreme Court against MasterCard's local partner.

The court upheld a lower court's ruling that the payment card company had illegally ended its contract with the website. WikiLeaks' funding had been squeezed without the ability to accept card payments. (Reporting by Robert Robertsson; Writing by Alistair Scrutton; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)


据国际媒体路透社以及《南华早报》等报社报道，接送“棱镜哥”爱德华·斯诺登去冰岛政治避难的专机已经到达香港机场，明天就可以起飞，斯诺登今天还在香港忙着庆祝他三十岁的生日。飞机是中国提供的，是维基解密积极分子和冰岛商人思古文身先生用维基解密的捐款二十四万欧元（约两百多万人民币）在中国租借的。思古文身的IT公司Datacell是维基解密的合作伙伴，也负责在国际上为维基解密筹集捐款。斯诺登的香港签证还有一个月就要过期，将面临被香港警察逮捕驱逐出境。

奥巴马今天命名共和党人Jim Comey为FBI新头子。Jim Comey曾经在小布什时期因为反对NSA监听公民的计划而丢掉司法部长的乌纱帽，被迫去哥伦比亚大学当教书匠。Jim Comey的就职还需要参议院点头。FBI目前负责追捕爱德华·斯诺登。

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20 ... land_n_3475179.html
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko ... ing-snowden-iceland

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/ ... -comey-fbi-director

Edward Snowden Asylum: Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson Readies Private Plane To Iceland
Reuters  |  Posted: 06/20/2013 6:38 pm EDT

REYKJAVIK, June 20 (Reuters) - An Icelandic businessman linked to WikiLeaks said he has readied a private plane to take Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed secret U.S. surveillance programmes, to Iceland if the government grants him asylum.

"We have made everything ready at our end now we only have to wait for confirmation from the (Icelandic) Interior Ministry," Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson told Reuters. He is a director of DataCell, a company which processed payments for WikiLeaks.

"A private jet is in place in China and we could fly Snowden over tomorrow if we get positive reaction from the Interior Ministry. We need to get confirmation of asylum and that he will not be extradited to the U.S. We would most want him to get a citizenship as well," Sigurvinsson said.

Neither a WikiLeaks spokesman nor the Icelandic government were immediately available for comment.

Snowden, a former employee of contractor Booz Allen Hamilton who worked in an NSA facility in Hawaii, made world headlines this month after providing details of the programmes to the Guardian and Washington Post and fleeing to Hong Kong.

Earlier this week, WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said a middleman had approached him on behalf of Snowden to seek asylum in Iceland.

The Icelandic government, which has declined to say whether they would grant asylum to Snowden, confirmed it had received the message from Hrafnsson.

Birgitta Jonsdottir, a lawmaker for the Pirate Party in Iceland which campaigns for Internet freedom, said the only way for Snowden to travel to the Nordic country would be to have Icelandic citizenship.

Snowden has mentioned Iceland as a possible refuge.

Iceland has a reputation for promoting Internet freedoms, but Snowden has said he did not travel there immediately from the United States because he feared the country of 320,000 could be pressured by Washington.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over allegations of sex offences, visited Iceland several times in the run-up to some of the website's major releases. Assange denies any wrongdoing.

WikiLeaks and DataCell won a ruling this year in Iceland's Supreme Court against MasterCard's local partner.

The court upheld a lower court's ruling that the payment card company had illegally ended its contract with the website. WikiLeaks' funding had been squeezed without the ability to accept card payments. (Reporting by Robert Robertsson; Writing by Alistair Scrutton; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)