One night Saladin made a trap to catch anyone trying to get near him while he was sleeping. In the morning he found some sweet bread near his head. A knife through it held a message saying: You are under our power! No one could explain how the things got there. 'Perhaps Sinan does have special powers!" thought Saladin We must stop fighting him and his people No one knew what Saladin and Sinan agreed. but the Assassins never tried to hurt Saladin again. By 1177. most of Syria wanted to help Saladin, who was now thirty-nine. Then the news came that the Franks and the people in Byzantium were no longer tra friends. Saladin felt that perhaps now was the time to start a tha holy war to take Jerusalem back from the Franks.