Kareem Fahim William Booth The Washington Post

Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist whose writings had jabbed his country's leaders, seemed at ease in the days before he disappeared after visiting Saudi Arabia's consulate here, unconcerned about being tracked by government spies and peripatetic, as always, despite battling a cold.

Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist whose writings had jabbed his country's leaders, seemed at ease in the days before he disappeared after visiting Saudi Arabia's consulate here, unconcerned about being tracked by government spies and peripatetic, as always, despite battling a cold.