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"President Barack Obama won't use military aircraft to force a plane carrying National Security Administration leaker Edward Snowden to land, he told reporters at a Thursday press conference opening his trip to Africa.\n\"I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker,\" Obama said in response to a hypotethical scenario presented to him.\nSEE ALSO: WikiLeaks: Missing Edward Snowden Is 'in a Safe Place'\n\nObama also told reporters he has not personally called Russian President Vladimir Putin or Chinese President Xi Jinping about Snowden. \n\"I have not called President Xi personally or President Putin personally and the reason is, number one, I shouldn't have to,\" Obama said, as quoted by Reuters.\n\"Number two, we've got a whole lot of business that we do with China and Russia, and I'm not going to have one case of a suspect who we're trying to extradite suddenly being elevated to the point where I've got to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues,\" he added.\nSnowden flew to Hong Kong and holed up at a hotel in the city after leaking documents about NSA surveillance programs to The Guardian and The Washington Post. Snowden left Hong Kong for Moscow days after revealing his identity and taking credit for the leaks. \nSnowden is now believed to be at a Moscow airport transit area, which is a legal null zone that is not considered Russian territory. Putin previously said he would not extradite Snowden because he is not technically in Russia and has not committed a crime in the country. Earlier, rumors circulated that he had booked a flight to Ecuador by way of Cuba, though reporters who boarded a Moscow-to-Havana flight found that Snowden's seat was empty. \nFederal prosecutors have charged Snowden with theft of government property and two offenses of espionage. \nImage via Alex Wong/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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