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>> so saladin took advantage of that. and when richard has to go back to england, saladin realized that was the time to strike and to launch an attack. >> saladin goes down to jaffa and besieges it. >> when king richard hears jaffa is under siege, he decides he must immediately return to the holy land once more. >> and the garrison are on the point of surrender when richard appears in a very sort of action figure where he jumps off his boat, wades ashore. >> he picks up any weapon he can find an...

>> saladin has the true cross. he says that to him, its a worthless piece of wood. but hes well aware its something that the christians really want back. >> so i dont think you can equate it with any loss of money because it surpasses any money you can imagine. >> so its vital to have it as a good bargaining tool. and it will be used in negotiations between muslims and crusaders for decades to come. >> but saladin decides to free guy of lusignan, perhaps signaling to the crusaders that hes magna...

Of person who would react on the basis of instinct rather than thinking. >> this is why hes called lionhearted. he fights brutally and ruthlessly. >> when king richard arrives in palestine, it was a very, very powerful figure. king guy essentially became a footnote. nobody bothered about who he was, what he was doing, because it didnt matter. >> both saladin and king richard believed that jerusalem belongs to their faiths. for christians, jerusalem is a place of pilgrimage. for muslims, jerusale...

Choice but to negotiate a surrender. >> saladin agrees to return the true cross, the crusaders great talisman, to them. he will pay an enormous financial sum. they will release large numbers of prisoners, and they will also surrender all the arms and ships that they have. >> but saladin wants the muslims who had been trapped in acre to be returned to him safely. were talking about wlm 3,000. so saladin and richard reach a deal. >> but saladin is very slow at fulfilling the terms of surrender at ...

Sister, joanna, in marriage to saladins brother, aladil. the agreement would give christians possession of the coastal lands. the muslims would have gotten most of the hinterlands, and then the capital, jerusalem, would have been jointly ruled by joanna and aladil, saladins brother. >> but it all hinges on saladin agreeing to the compromise.

You have to tell stories of how noble it is. you tell people the city where jesus was raised from the dead, it was being defiled by muslims. >> after the fall of jerusalem, the people in the west are told that saladin is the son of satan. >> that struck at the heart of every christian because they could say, hey, i might not understand economics, and i might not understand politics, but you start messing with jesus, and now im going to go fight. >> the third crusade was carried out mostly by men...

Acre. and the longer this goes on, the more suspicious he gets. >> he flew into a fit of rage, something that he was known to do. he took the hostages, and he marches them out to a promontory outside of the city of acre and in front of saladins eyes, he has them executed in cold blood. its a terribly ruthless, brutal thing to do. >> its something that utterly, of course, devastates saladin, completely catches him unawares. he tries to rescue the people, but its too late. hes devastated. his secr...

Because that proposal essentially floated a great idea, and that is coexistence. it would have been an inspiring moment, and it would have probably played a role today in the way palestinians and israelis negotiate over the fate of jerusalem. >> with any hope of compromise gone, conflict is now inevitable. both sides prepare for battle. >> saladins personally taking charge, being involved in moving stones to help prepare the walls to face the siege that they expect. but he has managed to reforti...

>> but saladin didnt go in and slaughter all of the christians who were in there. he was a noble warrior, and so he allowed all of the christians to live. >> saladin decides that christians would be allowed to leave on payment of a ransom, and anyone who cant pay, would be enslaved. >> but some of the churchmen walk out carrying jeweled objects, precious objects v, th are clearly worth a lot of money. >> the church leavers were only interested in taking as much as they could carry with them as p...

>> while saladin focuses on jerusalem, the crusaders have regrouped under the command of king guy. >> saladin allowed king guy to go freely on the condition that he sail across the sea, meaning he goes back to france from whence he came. guy is not so naive. he recognizes that he still has another card to play. >> he goes to this little island about two miles offshore and comes back and says, ive been overseas. >> in allowing him to live, saladin unwittingly allowed king guy to reconstitute his ...