Posted on 08/15/2009 3:09:23 PM PDT by jedi150
US senator visits Suu Kyi Published: 16/08/2009 at 04:50 AM Rangoon (AFP) - US Senator Jim Webb met Burmese military ruler Than Shwe and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday after securing the release of the US citizen jailed for visiting Suu Kyi's house in May.
John Yettaw, bound for Bangkok Sunday afternoon.
Webb, a Democrat with close links to US President Barack Obama, became the first official US visitor to hold talks with the reclusive Than Shwe, encountering the regime's supremo in his bunker-like capital, Naypyidaw, officials said.
Webb then flew to Rangoon to meet Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi at a government guesthouse near her home - her first meeting with a foreign official since her house arrest was extended by 18 months earlier this week.
Webb's office later issued a statement in Washington saying he had secured an agreement from the junta to release John Yettaw, who was jailed for seven years this week over an incident in which he swam to Suu Kyi's lakeside home.
"I am grateful to the Myanmar government," Webb was quoted as saying, using the military dictatorship's name for Burma..
"It is my hope that we can take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying a foundation of goodwill and confidence-building in the future," Webb said.
The statement said Yettaw would be officially deported Sunday morning, adding that "Senator Webb will bring him
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What did we give away in exchange?
They should keep Webb. He’ll fit right in as a thug in a leftist totalitarian fascist regime.
Let’s see Webb wrote a novel that had bits about pedophilia, and he’s in a region notorious for child prostitution. Coincidence?
Forget John Yettaw, Release Suu Kyi!!
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