Among Other Things

The United Nations chief has said that the grounding of the Bolivian president's plane in Vienna on suspicion that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was aboard was “unfortunate”.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said on Tuesday that “it was important to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future.''

“A head of state and his or her aircraft enjoy immunity and inviolability.''

  alJazeera

Obviously, to the contrary, he does not.

Spain has acknowledged on Tuesday that a US request had led it to delay approving an overflight by Bolivia's president.

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Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo was asked by reporters whether the alert had come from the United States.

He replied: "Inter alia (among other things)."

I wonder what those might be.

The Bolivian government says the United States knew that Snowden was not on the plane and simply wanted to intimidate Morales because of his outspoken criticism of US policies.

Inter alia. THOSE things being, to let the world know that we don’t give a damn for international laws, and that we have ALL their teats in our wringer, and to let any would-be whistleblowers know that the world can’t protect them from the US.

It’s not a question of whether or not Snowden was on President Morales’ plane.  Even if he HAD been, the President of any country supposedly is, within his property, as Milktoast Ban says, inviolable. Heads of states and even their diplomats can even commit crimes and have immunity from prosecution.

In the United States, if a person with immunity is alleged to have committed a crime or faces a civil lawsuit, the Department of State alerts the government that the diplomat works for. The Department of State also asks the home country to waive immunity of the alleged offender so that the complaint can be moved to the courts. If immunity is not waived, prosecution cannot be undertaken. However, the Department of State still has the discretion to ask the diplomat to withdraw from her or his duties in the United States.

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A group of diplomats and the office space in which they work are referred to as a mission. Creditors cannot sue missions individually to collect money they owe.

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In the summer of 1994 U.S. diplomat Victor Marrero reportedly complained to the United Nations secretariat that foreign diplomats' debts in the United States were $5.3 million. The New Yorker later reported that a well-informed source had said the figure had risen "closer to $7 million."

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Diplomats and their families have also been known to use diplomatic immunity to avoid prosecution for criminal behavior. For example, in a 1983 case the New York City Police Department suspected a diplomat's son of 15 different rapes. The son was allowed to leave the United States without ever being taken to court because he claimed diplomatic immunity. If diplomatic immunity is used as a shield, the police cannot prosecute, no matter how serious the crime may be.

  The Free Dictionary

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.