From the New York Times on Michael Barbarale, this is The Daily.

Today, Saudi Arabia's crown prince has promoted himself to the West as a reformer determined

to create a more free and open society.

Now the disappearance of a journalist in Turkey is unraveling that image.

It's Thursday, October 11.

Okay, so it was midday on Tuesday, October the 2nd.

It's a leafy residential district in Istanbul, where some of the consulates are and there's

some nice hotels.

This couple turns up at the Saudi Arabian consulate and the gentleman went in and his fiance

who's Turkish stayed on the sidewalk.

He handed both his cell phones to her and he's going in to pick up a document so that they

can get married.

Karla Tagal is the Istanbul bureau chief for the times.

So this was a Saudi citizen.

He turned out to be someone that a lot of us knew.

It was Jamal Kashoggi, a famous veteran journalist covering the Middle East.

He's known for being a journalist for over 30 years from Saudi Arabia but also being

very well connected with the government and the royal family.

So he worked as an advisor to Prince Turkey, bin Faisal, who was the ambassador first in

London and then Washington and then in Washington he was literally a spokesman for the embassy.

He was somebody people could call.

So that's how professionally he became both a journalist but also someone very hooked

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