In view of what transpired he may have been right, though I doubt it.

They might have held me as hostage.
Not that they were in any kind of over-tolerant mood.

There was a man's dead body hanging by one foot from a great hook on a high wall, and the wall was splattered with blood and chipped by bullets.

I asked Ahmed what kind of criminal he might be.
"He did not agree with them.

They are for war.