Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

2002 for Wednesday, October 10th. In today's news, Hurricane Michael could be the most intense storm to ever strike the Florida panhandle.

Nicky Haley resigns his UN ambassador but says she won't run for president at least in 2020. And the FBI's top lawyer says

he believed Rod Rosenstein's suggestion to wiretap President Trump was serious.

But first, the big idea.

Before the disappearance last week of Saudi journalist Jamal Koshogi, U.S. Intelligence intercepted communications from Saudi officials discussing plans to capture him.

Sources tell us the Saudis wanted to lure Koshogi, a contributor to the Washington Post's global opinion section,

who has emerged in recent years as a leading dissident.

Back to Saudi Arabia and lay hands on him there.

It was not clear whether the Saudis intended to arrest Arabia and lay hands on him there.

It was not clear whether the Saudis intended to arrest and interrogate Keshogi or to kill him.

It's also not clear if the United States warned Keshogi that he was a target and in danger. The men involved in Kishogi's disappearance

appear to have been lying in wait for him. As he prepared to enter the Saudi consulate

in Istanbul on October 2nd, a squad of 15 men from Saudi Arabia

who investigators suspect played a role in his disappearance was ready and in place.

They had flown in that morning from Riyadh, the Saudi capital, and checked in at two

international hotels before driving to the consulate. By the end of the day the team had

left the country, departing on planes bound for Cairo and Dubai.

That's according to reporting from my colleagues Loveday Morris,

Suad McKennett, and Karim Fahim.

Turkish officials who are examining the Squad's movement

have now expanded their

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