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• Turkey's President Moves into World's Biggest Palace Costing £384 million

• Obama to Deploy 1,500 More Troops to Iraq

• UN Imposes Sanctions on Former Yemen President

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Turkey's President Moves into World's Biggest Palace Costing £384 million

Recep Tayyip Erdogan's new residence is four times the size of Versailles, comfortably exceeding the grandeur of Louis XIV of France. Turkey's new president has been accused of behaving like a "sultan" after he installed himself in the biggest residential palace in the world, built for a price tag of £384 million. Recep Tayyip Erdogan now resides in the White Palace, which was constructed in breach of court orders in protected forestland in the capital, Ankara. Boasting 1,000 rooms covering a total floor area of 3.1 million square feet, the palace is four times the size of Versailles, allowing Mr Erdogan to exceed the residential grandeur of Louis XIV, the "Sun King" of France. Inside the palace, a majestic hallway leads up to a sweeping staircase. The quixotic architectural style seems to cross the Ottoman and Seljuk traditions with that of a modern Chinese railway station. The bathrooms have silk wallpaper and the whole edifice is surrounded by a forested park.

Hundreds of trees were felled to make way for the president's new home. Mr Erdogan, who designed much of the White Palace himself, has also taken the precaution of installing an underground bunker. Mehmet Simsek, the Turkish finance minister, said the total cost of the complex amounted to £384 million - twice the earlier estimate. Critics of Mr Erdogan, who won the presidency in August, denounced the project as a folie de grandeur.

"The so-called sultan has built this for himself in a country where three million people are without work," said Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the opposition Republican People's party. "You cut down hundreds of trees to build yourself this palace." Mr Erdogan served as prime minister for 11 years before ascending to the presidency. Although his AK party does not hold the two thirds majority in parliament required to amend the constitution, his ambition is to turn this traditionally ceremonial post into the new centre of power in Turkey.

Unlike all previous presidents, Mr Erdogan routinely chairs cabinet meetings. He has also spent £115 million on a new presidential jet, designed and supplied by Airbus to his own specification. As for critics of his new palace, Mr Erdogan said, "No one can prevent the completion of this building. If they are powerful enough, let them come and demolish it." [Source: Daily Telegraph]
Allah (swt) says:

إِنَّ قَارُونَ كَانَ مِن قَوْمِ مُوسَى فَبَغَى عَلَيْهِمْ وَآتَيْنَاهُ مِنَ الْكُنُوزِ مَا إِنَّ مَفَاتِحَهُ لَتَنُوءُ بِالْعُصْبَةِ أُولِي الْقُوَّةِ إِذْ قَالَ لَهُ قَوْمُهُ لَا تَفْرَحْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْفَرِحِينَ

"Qarun was doubtless, of the people of Moses; but he acted insolently towards them: such were the treasures We had bestowed on him that their very keys would have been a burden to a body of strong men, behold, his people said to him: "Exult not, for Allah loveth not those who exult (in riches)." [TMQ: Al Qasas: 76]

Obama to Deploy 1,500 More Troops to Iraq

President Barack Obama is authorizing the US military to deploy up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq as part of the mission to combat ISIL. Obama is also asking Congress for more than $5 billion to help fund the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) armed group.

The White House says the additional troops won't serve in combat, but will train, advise and assist Iraqi military and Kurdish forces fighting ISIL. Of the funding requested from Congress, $1.6 billion would go to the "Iraq Train and Equip" fund. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Obama has also authorized the additional personnel to operate at Iraqi military facilities outside Baghdad and Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region. Until now, US troops have been operating a joint operation center together with Iraqi forces in Baghdad. Earnest's announcement came just after Obama met with congressional leaders Friday. While US-led airstrikes against ISIL in Syria and Iraq have taken a toll on ISIL fighters, they have not yet significantly deterred the armed group's armed offensive across the region. Obama continues to take heat for his plans to train and equip Syria's "moderate" rebels, who are the weakest faction on the ground in the country's civil war.

The Syrian opposition says the fight against ISIL has distracted the US from what they say was already been a half-hearted effort to unseat the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Compared with Syria, the US has more viable partners on the ground in Iraq - the Iraqi military and Kurdish forces - but there is growing concern that some hardline Shia militias loyal to Iran are gaining in influence by taking to the frontlines against the Sunni ISIL fighters. [Source: Al Jazeera]

After spending billions and losing thousands of soldiers, America is once again poised to send more troops. Allah (swt) says:

((إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ لِيَصُدُّواْ عَن سَبِيلِ اللّهِ فَسَيُنفِقُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرَةً ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ إِلَى جَهَنَّمَ يُحْشَرُونَ))

"Verily, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to hinder (men) from the Path of Allah, and so will they continue to spend it; but in the end it will become an anguish for them. Then they will be overcomed. And those who disbelieve will be gathered unto Hell." [TMQ: Al-Anfal: 36]

UN Imposes Sanctions on Former Yemen President

The UN Security Council has imposed sanctions on Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and two Shiite Muslim leaders for threatening Yemeni peace and stability. The US-sponsored sanctions include a worldwide travel ban and a freezing of foreign assets. The council agreed that Saleh had worked with the Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, in undermining efforts by the new president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, to establish stability and democracy. A US official who asked not to be named said the sanctions made it clear that the international community will not tolerate efforts to use violence to thwart the aspirations of the Yemeni people. Yemen has been in political upheaval since the former president was forced to step down in 2011. Earlier Friday, Yemen announced the formation of a new Cabinet, a key demand of the Houthis, who threatened a revolution if no government was named. Yemen's political factions signed a deal last week asking Hadi and Prime Minister Khaled Bahah to put together a politically neutral government committed to human rights. Houthis had given Hadi an ultimatum to form a new government by next week or face what they called "all revolutionary options." The new Cabinet includes General Mahmoud al-Subaihi, who is known for fighting al-Qaida, as defense minister, and veteran diplomat Abdullah al-Saaidi as foreign minister. [Source: Voice of America]

The sanctions will make little difference, as Saleh a loyal stalwart to Britain remains intractably involved with the Houthis and will try to arrange a political outcome that is in the favor of Britain - his political master.

Jokowi-JK Administration strongly signaled they will soon raise fuel prices, probably in the range of Rp 8,500/liter. The main reason is to reduce the burden of subsidies of fuel which they said to have been enormous.

Wagah Massacre is to Push the Armed Forces into the Wrong Front

A devastating suicide attack at the entrance of the Wagah Border parade venue on 2 November killed 60 people, including 10 women and 7 children, and left more than 110 injured. Again the claim for responsibility was made by a shadowy group, allegedly from the tribal areas. Asides from the grave human loss, these blasts are an attempt to strain Pakistan's armed forces. The Pakistan armed forces face two enemy forces on their borders, on the western border, the Americans occupying Afghanistan and on the eastern border, the Indian forces, who have been mercilessly firing tens of thousands of mortar shells into Pakistan. In the midst of these challenges, the bomb blast has been used to turn the attention of the armed forces onto a third front, the tribal areas, from where America has faced a defiant resistance from tribal Muslims, which have shaken its resolve and forced it to make a partial withdrawal.

Such attacks solely serve the interests of the Americans and the Indians. It is no surprise either that such attacks are part of the American foreign policy. These are false flag attacks, supervised by American intelligence and private military and designed to ensnare Pakistan's armed forces into prolonged, low intensity conflict within its own borders, crippling its capability to address the American and Indian enemies.

Only the Khilafah "Caliphate" can extricate Pakistan's armed forces from the trap laid for it by traitors in Pakistan's leadership, collaborating with America and India. The Khaleefah will strike at the root of the terrorist network, which is the American and Indian forces, whether it is diplomatic, intelligence or private military. Having decisively smashed the internal threat, the Khilafah "Caliphate" will expand Pakistan's armed forces, ensuring that it recruits from Pakistan rich and diverse sources of able bodied men, whether in the tribal regions or elsewhere.

Crippling Gas Price Costs is a Consequence of Capitalism

On 4 November 2014, Dawn reported, "Amid a controversy over excessive power billing, the government is set to face another wave of public outcry as gas tariff for all categories of consumers, including domestic, is likely to be increased by three to five times in a month or so. "Our estimate is that a domestic consumer who receives a monthly bill of Rs500 will get a bill of about Rs5,000," an Ogra official told Dawn." As usual the government denied such reports, but what it cannot deny is the previous great rises in gas prices and the fact that when public attention is diverted elsewhere the government continuously raises the price. Moreover, the backs of the Muslims of Pakistan are being broken as the entire energy sector is undergoing whole-scale privatization, with accompanying rises in prices to ensure profit for the private parties that are the new owners.

Capitalism holds private ownership of all property as an ideal. It frowns upon state ownership as a necessary evil. It has no concept of public ownership of energy, unlike Islam. As a consequence, Capitalism has ensured the privatization of huge sources of revenue, which in origin should fall under public ownership, such as energy and minerals, or predominately state owned, such as heavy industry, telecommunications, arms manufacture and telecommunications. So private companies have become owners of immense wealth, such that some have more than small countries. This has occurred at the cost of society and this indiscriminate privatization of property is one of the main mechanisms in Capitalism for the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. To add to the woes of the people, having deprived society of the great sources of wealth, democratic countries then greatly increase taxation upon the common man so as to raise revenues for looking after the people's affairs.

It is high time that the Muslims ended the world's economic misery, by establishing the Khilafah "Caliphate". The Khilafah "Caliphate" through implementation of the Shariah laws related to property will provide an inspiring economic model for all of humankind, as it did for centuries previously.

Regime Exploits Karbala Tragedy to Claim that Islam is Unimplementable

As occurs every year during Muharram, the traitorous regime's mobilize their mouthpieces in the media to raise hue and cry, in order to ignite sectarian strife. They fulfill the agenda of the colonialists by raising the question in the minds of the people, that if you want Islam, which Islam do you want? These lowly agents never raise questions about which democracy, a system of open Kufr. Moreover, the importance of the institution of Khilafah "Caliphate" in Islam, apart from the explicit texts in Quran and Sunnah, is clear from the tragedy of Karbala. Imam Hussain and the people of Madina believed that it is the right of the Muslims to appoint the Khaleefah and no one can forcefully assume the post of Ameer ul Momineen.
Authority in Islam is such an important subject and a sacred duty because there is no Islam in society without Islam being in political authority. It was for this purpose, to protect the political authority in Islam, the Khilafah "Caliphate", that Imam Hussain sacrificed himself and his family. So what to say about today when Islam is not in authority, neither in governance? Imam Hussain feared for Muslims loosing the right to appoint their Imam so what about now when there is no Imam and no Khaleefah. If anything, Karbala and the great sacrifice it commemorates must remind us of the importance of Khilafah "Caliphate" and our obligation to work towards its re-establishment. For heroes in Islam are not just celebrated but emulated.

US General Gloats over Ensnaring Pakistan's Armed Forces

Pakistan's ongoing military operation in North Waziristan has helped disrupt the Haqqani network's ability to launch attacks on Afghan territory, says a top US general. In a Pentagon-hosted video briefing from Afghanistan on the evening of 5 March 2014, Lt-Gen Joe Anderson said the Haqqani network was still "one of the many threat streams" that continued to affect the US presence in Afghanistan.

The US is examining the operations closely because it needs to curtail Pakistan's great potential as a power well beyond its borders. America needs Pakistan to focus internally, in order to make way for the rise of India as the US backed policeman for the region and guarantor of US ambitions regarding China and the Muslims. An internally focused Pakistan will ignore the growing presence of India in Afghanistan, which the American occupation has secured. An internally focused Pakistan will ignore Indian atrocities in Kashmir and other Muslim populated regions. In addition, an internally focused Pakistan will never benefit of the strong Islamic sentiments that bind this vast Ummah, fertile ground for the unification of the Muslim World as a single force.

Islam alone can rescue Pakistan from the deep and dangerous US trap. Islam uniquely grants Muslims a sense of global responsibility, as RasulAllah (saw) was sent as a mercy for all of humankind. Islam ignites within them the urge to sacrifice in order to secure the supremacy of Allah's word. Thus, for centuries, the Khilafah "Caliphate" was not only the leading world state, it was the liberator of the oppressed and a sanctuary for the worlds refugees. For centuries, the Khilafah "Caliphate" gathered Muslims across continents as a single force against formidable enemies. Alliance with US is assuring Pakistan's demise. Only Islam and its system of Khilafah "Caliphate" can secure Pakistan's deserved rise.

Raheel-Nawaz Regime Seeks to Raise Bodyguards for India and the US, Rather than a Liberation Force
Pakistan Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif renewed on 6 November Pakistan's offer to train Afghan security forces and promised weapons for an infantry brigade. The offer was made during Gen Sharif's day-long visit to Kabul for meetings with new Afghan civil leadership and military commanders.

America is in need of bodyguards for its cowardly army of occupation, whose role will also be to secure the unprecedented Indian presence in Afghanistan that America granted her. Rather than working to liberate the Muslim Lands from foreign enemy presence, the weak-willed and treacherous regime is bending over backwards to facilitate the American plan by arming and training her would-be bodyguards.

The Muslims must uproot the criminal Raheel-Nawaz regime and secure themselves by establishing the Khilafah "Caliphate". The Khilafah "Caliphate" will smash artificial borders that divide and weaken Muslim Lands, such as the Durand Line which separates Pakistan from Afghanistan. The Khilafah "Caliphate" will train and arm sincere tribals on both sides of the current Durand Line to strike at the crusader presence. And the Khilafah "Caliphate" will mobilize the armed forces of the Muslims to decisively eradicate the US occupation, shaken by facing poorly armed tribals, which will send India scurrying back into its borders.

Allah سبحانه وتعالى says,((وَلاَ تَهِنُوا وَلاَ تَحْزَنُوا وَأَنْتُمْ الأَعْلَوْنَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ))

"Do not weaken nor grieve, for you will overcome them if you are (indeed) believers" [Surah Aali-Imran 3:139]

Despite the tightening of the occupation on the entry of worshipers to the Al-Aqsa mosque on this Friday, 14 Muharram 1436 AH corresponding to November 7, 2014 CE, large crowds from Hizb ut Tahrir and its supporters called out from the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the people of Egypt and the Shaam, and the Maghreb, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Turkey, and the people of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Muslims in general to answer the call of Allah (swt:

((انْفِرُوا خِفَافًا وَثِقَالًا وَجَاهِدُوا بِأَمْوَالِكُمْ وَأَنْفُسِكُمْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ ذَلِكُمْ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ))

"Go forth, whether light or heavy, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the cause of Allah. That is better for you, if you only knew." [At-Tawba: 41]

in order to liberate it from the abomination of the criminal Jewish occupation offences.

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