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Sen. Jim Webb Secures Release of American Imprisoned in Myanmar

It's been a lucky couple of weeks for Americans held captive overseas. Two weeks after Bill Clinton secured the release of a pair of reporters from North Korea, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) has succeeded in getting a prisoner freed from Myanmar. As Ria Misra reported Friday, Webb stopped in Yangon as part of a two-week tour of Southeast Asia, and became the highest-ranking American official to meet with the head of Myanmar's junta, Than Shwe. Saturday the ruling generals agreed to hand over John Yettaw from Missouri, who had been sentenced to seven years of hard labor for swimming uninvited to ...

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