 Despite his successes during the Druze revolt , the authorities , with whom he always had a tense relationship , grew wary of his strength and subsequently arrested him in a nighttime raid . He was sent to Istanbul by sea and from there he was sent to serve a prison sentence at the <unk> fortress on the Danube River . Aqil was apparently loaned some money from the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem , who had accompanied him on the ship ride to Istanbul , and Aqil used those funds to purchase a fake passport . With the passport and a disguise , he and an Albanian inmate named Hasan Agha escaped <unk> in 1854 and reached Salonica . From there , Aqil departed to Anatolia and then Aleppo . Aqil resumed his Bedouin lifestyle of raiding and nomadic dwelling . 
