"Raymond" and his fellow Islamist anti-American sup****ters are angry
that Israel is buying oil from Iraq.
"Raymond" <Bluerhymer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Iraq Oil to be ****pped to Israel
> By: Amiram Cohen on: 15.04.2008 [05:09 ] (5582 reads)
>
> By Amiram Cohen (Haartez) & Editorial comment
> Apr 14, 2008, 23:44
>
> U.S.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
> sup****t 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 trans****t 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.
>
> The National Infrastructure Ministry has recently conducted research
> indicating that construction of a 42-inch diameter pipeline between
> Kirkuk and Haifa would cost about $400,000 per kilometer. The old
> Mosul-Haifa pipeline was only 8 inches in diameter.
>
> National Infrastructure Minister Yosef Paritzky said yesterday that
> the ****t of Haifa is an attractive destination for Iraqi oil and
> that
> he plans to discuss this matter with the U.S. secretary of energy
> during his planned visit to Wa****ngton next month. Paritzky added
> that
> the plan depends on Jordan's consent and that Jordan would receive a
> transit fee for allowing the oil to piped through its territory. The
> minister noted, however, that "due to pan-Arab concerns, it will be
> hard for the Jordanians to agree to the flow of Iraqi oil via Jordan
> and Israel."
>
> Sources in Jerusalem confirmed yesterday that the Americans are
> looking into the possibility of laying a new pipeline via Jordan and
> Israel. (There is also a pipeline running via Syria that has not
> been
> used in some three decades.
>
>
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=332835&contrassID=...'
>
> You Died For That Haifa Pipeline
> http://judicial-inc.biz/h.aifa_super_pipeline.htm
>
> Todah Rabah -- thank you.
> L'Shalom
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