FORGET IT – AT 1:46 P.M. ET:  Forget the bulletin just below.  Sweden apparently has had second thoughts:

Stockholm, Sweden (CNN) -- Swedish authorities say they have revoked an arrest warrant that had alleged rape against the founder and editor of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange.

Assange is "no longer wanted" and "is not suspected of rape," Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne said in a statement posted on the agency's official website Saturday. He is also no longer arrested in absentia, the statement said.

COMMENT:  Very, very strange.  How can you issue a formal charge, then revoke it within hours?  Was there a legal error?  Is politics involved?  I have no idea, but there's something not right.

August 21, 2010