Certainty: 2 Successful deception of Lu'lu' the eunuch of Aleppo against Bursuq Certainty: 2
Certainty: 3 Renewed aggression by Bursuq's forces: Capture of Kafartab
Once the Franks from Tripoli and Jerusalem had left, Bursuq returned to Antiochene lands and began ravaging again, capturing Ma'arrat al-Nu'man; he made Roger leave Antioch to observe him. Bursuq reappeared at Kafartab, attacking it for a second time, with a list of his amirs preserved: Baktimur, the grand chamberlain, the amirs Isma'il al-Bakji and Kundughadi, Sunqur Diraz, the ruler of al-Rahba, the amir Tamirak, commander Uzbe and Bursuq's brother Zanki. Bursuq's machines made a great breach, he captured the castle and completely destroyed it. Usama had seen a group of Turkish soldiers building a tunnel to undermine a tower inside Kafartab and set fire to it. He later inspected the tunnel himself in disguise. The Frankish prisoners learned the ransoms to be demanded for them: one farted and complained that it was far too much, causing a negative comment from the amir al-Sayyid al-Sharif to Murshid. Bursuq gave the site and control of the prisoners to the ruling family of Shayzar, though it was soon to return to Frankish control. Then he returned to Ma'rrat an Num'an, and there built more machines to capture Zerdana