Us Man Heads Home After Release From Myanmar Jail (ap)

Accompanied by an unidentified Thai woman, American John Yettaw, left, looks on as he arrives for a flight check-in to the U.S. at Suvarnabhumi international airport Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. President Barack Obama's press office said Monday that the United States was pleased that Democratic Sen. Jim Webb had arranged the release of Yettaw from detention in military-run Myanmar. Yettaw's uninvited stay at opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's residence in May caused both him and her to be arrested. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP – An American man imprisoned in Myanmar for sneaking into the opposition leader’s compound but released with the help of a visiting U.S. senator headed home on a flight Tuesday after two days of health checks in Thailand.

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