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John Yettaw, 54, had three days of medical tests at a hospital in
Yettaw's United Airlines flight left early Wednesday bound for
"Mr John William Yettaw left
A spokeswoman for the
Yettaw had been sentenced to seven years' hard labour for swimming to the lakeside home of Suu Kyi in early May using a pair of homemade flippers, but he was freed after the weekend visit by Democratic Senator Jim Webb.
A devout Mormon from Falcon, Missouri, Yettaw told his trial that he intruded on Suu Kyi's house on a "mission from God" to warn her about a vision that she would be assassinated.
But his actions led to her arrest and last week she was sentenced to a further 18 months under house arrest, meaning that she will be locked up during elections promised by the ruling junta in 2010.
The military regime has kept the opposition leader in detention for 14 of the past 20 years. It refused to recognise her National League for Democracy's landslide victory in the last national polls, in 1990.
Yettaw, who suffers from diabetes and epilepsy, required hospital treatment earlier this month when he suffered a number of fits at
Webb said Sunday that Yettaw was "not a well man" and had suffered what the senator called a medical episode even as he was being deported by
The senator was allowed to meet with Suu Kyi -- unlike UN head Ban Ki-Moon, who was denied access to the opposition leader during a visit in July -- as well as hold talks with military ruler Than Shwe.
He denied after the talks that he had offered
But Webb is a vocal critic of US economic sanctions and said he was seeking a "new approach" with the junta.
Dissidents have criticised Webb's visit, saying that he was used as a propaganda tool by the regime and lamenting the fact that he won the release of Yettaw while Suu Kyi stays in detention.
