Suu Kyi intruder freed by Burma

AN American man imprisoned in Burma for sneaking into the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi flew out of the country yesterday after a visiting US senator won his release.

John Yettaw of Falcon, Missouri, arrived in Bangkok on a US government plane with Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, who secured his freedom with a plea to Burma’s ruling military junta.

Webb’s visit to Burma was the first by a member of the US Congress in more than a decade, and could presage a new approach by Washington toward the military government, which it has shunned.