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Topic: U.S. may pump oil from Iraq to Israel
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| UGoGirl | Posted – 8/1/2007 9:50:28 PM | show profile Looks like we're not leaving anytime soon... *** U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil from northern Iraq to Haifa, via Jordan By Amiram Cohen The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem. The Prime Minister's Office, which views the pipeline to Haifa as a "bonus" the U.S. could give to Israel in return for its unequivocal support for the American-led campaign in Iraq, had asked the Americans for the official telegram. The new pipeline would take oil from the Kirkuk area, where some 40 percent of Iraqi oil is produced, and transport it via Mosul, and then across Jordan to Israel. The U.S. telegram included a request for a cost estimate for repairing the Mosul-Haifa pipeline that was in use prior to 1948. During the War of Independence, the Iraqis stopped the flow of oil to Haifa and the pipeline fell into disrepair over the years. ... Haaretz.com |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 8/1/2007 10:00:26 PM | show profile Well this may be four year old news. I saw it on huffington.post but looks like it was from 2003! Doh! |
| mailbag | Posted – 8/2/2007 9:19:41 AM | show profile | email poster Are they trying to re-write history? I distinctly recall Israel wasn't supporting the Iraq invasion for political reasons locally.... (They weren't condemning it either, just remaining neutral. So, what happened?) |
