Well as with the late unlamented Saddam Hussein, and The Shah of Persia before him - perhaps the reason the guys act nasty is beacause they are sitting on a load of disparate elements whose presence isn't immediately obvious, because they are being successfully kept quiet.

It would be extremely dumb to pretend that wasn't a possibility - having experienced Iraq.


Anyway I feel a little more deliberation and fact finding wouldn't harm the situation - rather than going in there with guns blazing.