Senator Jim Webb secures release of John Yettaw from Burma

The US should abandon sanctions against Burma, a senior senator said today after flying out of Rangoon with the American man jailed for swimming to the house of the Burmese democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Jim Webb was speaking in Bangkok after securing the release of John Yettaw, the eccentric American well-wisher whose clandestine visit [...]