Via WSJ:
An Icelandic businessman says he has made arrangements to spirit Edward Snowden away from Hong Kong to Iceland via a private jet, which he says is prepared to leave at just a few hours’ notice.
“We are on standby, and if something happens we can move fast,” said Olafur Sigurvinsson, who has been coordinating the effort in partnership with WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy organization that is assisting Mr. Snowden in his attempt to seek political asylum in Iceland.
In the meantime, Iceland’s Pirate Party is also lobbying for citizenship for Mr. Snowden, says Mr. Sigurvinsson, noting the case of chess champion Bobby Fischer, who was also granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005. At the time, Mr. Fischer was languishing in a Japanese jail after allegedly violating U.N. sanctions by playing a chess match in Yugoslavia, which was under an embargo at the time.
Mr. Snowden entered Hong Kong on May 20, where he has holed up after leaking material about U.S. surveillance programs to media outlets, which sparked a political maelstrom in the United States, where he is under investigation. Mr. Snowden does not face any known restrictions in his local movements, but his supporters are nonetheless prepared for back-up options, should leaving Hong Kong prove difficult, said Mr. Sigurvinsson.