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Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former defense contractor who leaked National Security Agency documents and has been labeled an American "traitor" on the lam, apparently hasn't even left the Chinese city from which he shared America's spying secrets, despite vanishing the day after his tell-all interview went public — and despite the reporters and investigators on the tail of a leaker and his lady. In fact, one local Hong Kong paper tracked him down, and there appears to be another tell-all on the way. "I'm neither traitor nor hero," Snowden tells The South China Morning Post in his first interview since The Guardian unmasked him. "I'm an American." The paper hasn't yet published the "more explosive details" it's promised, but seems to suggest Snowden is still "holed up in secret locations in Hong Kong."

Update, 9:50 a.m. Eastern: Here's more of Snowden from the Morning Post interview, apparently conducted today.

“People who think I made a mistake in picking HK as a location misunderstand my intentions. I am not here to hide from justice; I am here to reveal criminality,” said Snowden told the Post earlier today. He vowed to fight any extradition attempt by the US government, saying: “My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate. I have been given no reason to doubt your system.’’

Update, 10:50 a.m.: Apparently the interview was actually conducted on Tuesday, and a slightly longer version of the Morning Post interview includes a look ahead:

“As long as I am assured a free and fair trial, and asked to appear, that seems reasonable,” he said. He says he plans to stay in Hong Kong until he is “asked to leave”

Update, 1:35 p.m.: The Morning Post's site can't seem to handle the load of people reading their Snowden interview, but The Guardian's excellent live blog has the latest. Snowden claims that the U.S. has been hacking Chinese computers for four years, and that he showed documents to the Post revealing as much. Quoth the Post's Lana Lam:

Snowden claimed that overall, he believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA hacking operations globally, with hundreds of targets in Hong Kong and on the mainland.

Update: Could Snowden's re-emergence mean a new round of leaks is on the way? We look ahead.