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EDIT:Well scramble my jets! - NO JETS WERE SCRAMBLED, sorry didn't mean to confuse.
Portugal wouldn't let the Bolivian plane land because they thought Snowden was on board and didn't want the headache of having to extradite Snowden because of their treaty with the USA. So they refueled in Austria. No one knows the source of the rumor about Snowden onboard but lately Morales said he'd consider his asylum application.
(CNN) -- Bolivian officials say an official aircraft carrying President Evo Morales had to land in Austria on Tuesday after false rumors circulated that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden was onboard.
Portuguese and French authorities wouldn't let the plane land in their territories, Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca told reporters.
"We are told that there were some unfounded suspicions that Mr. Snowden was on the plane," Choquehuanca said. "We do not know who has invented this lie. Someone who wants to harm our country. This information that has been circulated is malicious information to harm this country."
The plane had been flying from Moscow back to Bolivia. The foreign minister said authorities from the South American country are investigating the source of the false rumors about Snowden.
"Portugal owes us an explanation. France owes us an explanation. ... The president's life was put at risk," Choquehuanca said.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/02/world/americas/bolivia-presidential-plane/