Ishmaeli forces in those early days when the truce was negotiated and the presence in Europe seen as a Buffer zone of moderate and desirable Shiite culture likely to bridge the religious world between them. The demise of the Templar power could quite also be quite reasonably seen as the breaking of the dam and sparked of the unwise and capricious expulsion of the citizens of Al Andalus and a culture that promised to change Christianity for the better within a genuine historical context. It was however something with similar origins and also linked to knowledge as power, that wreaked the final blows against Islamic expansion worldwide and it came from the plains of Mongolia at the foot of the Caspian mountains but not in time to pillage all that had been syphoned off to the West by the early knights. The Ishmaeli, as always, were one step ahead,and The Mongol forces of the Golden Hordes got into Alamut a little too late. There is very little doubt that the knowledge they sought to consolidate or destroy was safely on its way. However, it is interesting to note, in view of the historical events attributed to their horrendously violent campaigns, that what stood in their way was not force, which bent with the wind before them, but a respect, difficult to understand, unless the powers that be were expecting and knew them well. The doors of the Vatican remained closed and whatever transpired to prevent them being blown open, could have only been an understanding based on an acceptance of their right and might or a committment with respect to the forces that the new found knowledge could unleash on them – the very knowledge that the Khans had tried to prevent being taken to the West and which they feared. Each and every single one