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Date: August 2, 2007 2:33:25 PM PDT
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Subject: Neocons Hope to Give Iraq's Oil to ISRAEL
U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil
from northern Iraq to Haifa, via Jordan
By Amiram Cohen
Haaretz (Jerusalem), August 2, 2007
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?
itemNo=332835&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
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 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 [Kurdish] 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.
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 port 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 Washington 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.)
Iraqi oil is now being transported via Turkey to a small
Mediterranean port near the Syrian border. The transit fee
collected by Turkey is an important source of revenue for the
country. This line has been damaged by sabotage twice in recent
weeks and is presently out of service.
In response to rumors about the possible Kirkuk-Mosul-Haifa
pipeline, Turkey has warned Israel that it would regard this
development as a serious blow to Turkish-Israeli relations.
Sources in Jerusalem suggest that the American hints about the
alternative pipeline are part of an attempt to apply pressure on
Turkey.
Iraq is one of the world's largest oil producers, with the
potential of reaching about 2.5 million barrels a day. Oil exports
were halted after the Gulf War in 1991 and then were allowed again
on a limited basis (1.5 million barrels per day) to finance the
import of food and medicines. Iraq is currently exporting several
hundred thousand barrels of oil per day.
During his visit to Washington in about two weeks, Paritzky also
plans to discuss the possibility of U.S. and international
assistance for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects in the areas of
energy and infrastructure, natural gas, desalination and electricity
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