Burma leaders meet senator, free detained American
Posted: August 16, 2009 at 4:47 a.m.
In this image released by the office of U.S. Senator Jim Webb shows Webb meeting with Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon Saturday Aug. 15, 2009
Stung by international anger over the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's ruling generals agreed Saturday to hand over an American prisoner involved in her case to a visiting U.S. senator.
In this 2005 file photo released by his family, John William Yettaw is shown. Yettaw thought he was on a mission from God to...
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