Raymond of Toulouse and other leaders on their way home went peacefully up the coast to Jabala, where they heard that Bohemond was wrongfully besieging Laodikeia, with the aid of Pisan and Genoese fleets. They sent messengers asking him to stop. The returning crusaders were met at Jabala by Daimbert, who congratulated them joyfully. But they accused him and his forces with Bohemond of wronging the Christians of Laodikeia. Daimbert pleaded ignorance, saying that all Bohemond's allies knew came from Bohemond himself. He promised to conduct the crusaders' messengers to Laodikeia to tell the Pisan and Genoese fleets to stop fighting. However Bohemond scorned the messengers' requests, vowing harshly to capture the city; but he was forced to change his tune when his Italian allies withdrew. When the crusaders reached Laodikeia, Raymond flew his own standard there and spent two weeks of September with plentiful food. Messengers were sent to Bohemond, and hatred was replaced by unity, love, and talk of Jerusalem, till he left for Antioch