 At the time of Aqil 's escape , the Ottomans were engaged in the Crimean War with the Russian Empire , which left a domestic security void in its provinces due to the large number of provincial troops deployed to Crimea . To restore security in the Galilee , Aqil was reassigned to his powerful post in the region in 1855 . On his return to Palestine , Aqil 's Hanadi tribesmen abandoned their conscription orders to serve with the Ottoman Army in the Crimean War and instead returned to Aqil 's service . Aqil was once again charged with protecting the routes of rural Palestine and occasionally Transjordan . He was once commissioned to collect taxes from Karak . 
