UPDATE, 11/27/07: we’ve determined  – much to our embarassment – that we were suckered by trackback spam into concluding this was a new report. In fact, it linked, eventually, to a May 2007 post on abcnews.com 

This is one of the more insidious permutations of spam – polluting the stream of information about critical issues. Our apologies to our readers. Eds. 

The Janine Swainston blog has a report dated November 21, 2007 (two days ago) headed

The entire text of the blog post is:

Friends of the former FBI agent believed to be in custody in Iran, Robert Levinson, say he could be released as early as today based on what they describe as two unconfirmed reports from Tehran. “We have received a call that he is free, and we have people at airports in Frankfurt and Dubai where we have been told he could show up,” one of. . .

The “more” link leads to an ABC News post dated May 1, 2007.

There’s no direct contact information on this blog – but we’re trying to run down this report – which, if true, would be the best Thanksgiving ever for a bunch of my favorite people – not least Bobby Levinson. (If this post finds its way to Mr. Levinson – he should be reminded that he owes me at least one dinner).