disappearance. you know, through his assistant translator, which he worked with from time to time while we worked together in the past year. you know, he had been collaborating on this piece up until the day before he disappeared on october 1st, as far as i can tell. so, like i said in my note above the column, we held off. we honestly thought that maybe we were dealing with, you know, perhaps an interrogation situation. we thought that maybe he would come back to us. we thought maybe we were perhaps even dealing with an imprisonment or a hostage situation. but as time went on, it became increasingly clear that i wouldn't edit him again. and so i think this week we decided as the story is moving on to sort of the u.s./saudi relationship, a geopolitical story, rumors are swirling about