Edward Snowden heads to Venezuela? Yes! No. Maybe?

Edward Snowden's whereabouts and travel plans are unclear. Rumors about that Edward Snowden has already or will soon be heading to Venezuela, but confirmation remains elusive.

By Jim Heintz,?Associated Press / July 9, 2013

A man tries to photograph an Aeroflot flight at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, on July 8. NSA leaker Edward Snowden is believed to be stuck in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo airport since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23. Offers for asylum have come in from the presidents of Nicaragua and Venezuela, but it's unclear whether Snowden has accepted.

Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

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The WikiLeaks secret-spilling site on Tuesday said NSA leaker Edward?Snowden?has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela, trying to put to rest growing confusion over whether he had taken up the country's offer.

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has offered asylum to?Snowden?and says his country received a request from the former NSA systems analyst. But?Snowden, who is believed to be in a Moscow airport's transit zone, has applied for asylum in other countries as well, and it is not clear how easy it would be for him to travel to the Latin American country.

On Tuesday, a prominent Russian lawmaker tweeted that?Snowden?had accepted Venezuela's offer, then deleted the posting a few minutes later.

It was not possible to immediately reach Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee who has acted as an unofficial point man for the Kremlin on the?Snowden?affair.

But soon after the posting on his Twitter account disappeared, he sent another message saying his claim was based on a report from the state all-news television channel Rossiya 24, also known as Vesti.

The channel said Pushkov misunderstood its report on Maduro's comments Monday night during a meeting with Panama's president, which the anchorwoman introduced by saying "Venezuela has finally received an answer" from?Snowden.

She then clarified that Maduro said Venezuela had received?Snowden's?official request and showed a clip of him saying in Russian voiceover that?Snowden?"should decide when to fly to Caracas, if he indeed has decided to come here."

WikiLeaks, which has been advising?Snowden, said Tuesday on Twitter that?Snowden?had not formally accepted the Venezuelan offer, and that any decision on asylum would be announced by the "states concerned" and "then be confirmed by us."

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