If one of the world's most wanted criminals strolled into the FBI and surrendered, offering valuable intel on terrorist threats and deadly assassins with (seemingly) no strings attached, would you trust him?
The Sultan tried to entice Zrinski to surrender, ultimately offering him leadership of Croatia under Ottoman influence, Count Zrinski did not reply and continued to fight.
But central to mystical life is the understanding of spiritual or mystical poverty, a state of inner emptiness or surrender, of offering oneself completely.
Thousands of its citizens died of starvation and disease during the siege, and popular belief has it that the mayor, one Van der Werf, convinced a ravenous mob not to surrender only by offering his own body as food.
But he is not offering to surrender.
President Ronald Reagan, Comey wrote, should send the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, a note "offering unconditional surrender".
He shot a police officer who approached, then engaged other officers in discussion, offering to surrender.
The gunman shot a school police officer who approached him, then talked with other officers, offering to surrender.
Early this morning, Iraqi time, American forces were reportedly beginning to enter Mosul, the largest city in the north, after military officials said Iraqi commanders there were offering to surrender in exchange for amnesty and an end to bombing.
There has been an armed stand-off at the house ever since, with Merah variously declaring his allegiance to al-Qaida, offering to surrender but then recanting, and boasting that he would have killed more people if given the chance.
