YaaaHoo The Michaels Have Come Home

[ourdon]

After more than a thousand days of political detention the PRC released the two Canadian citizens and they along with the Canadian Ambassador immediately got on a plane to Canada.  Chinese citizen Meng left Vancouver at the same time.  Years of effort on the part of our diplomats and government have been rewarded.  I would also like to thank the international community for standing besides us.

I'd like to thank our Southern "cousins" for their diplomatic pressures on our behalf.  When the US federal government achieved a DPA with Mengs lawyers they immediately withdrew their request for Mengs extradition to the US.  We could then close the extradition case and everyone went home within hours.