Israel to assess access to Iraq's oil
Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:17:07


The US has asked Israel to assess the possibility of pumping oil from Iraqi oil refineries to Haifa, according to Israeli reports.

The request was made by telegram last week, from a senior Pentagon official to a top Israeli Foreign Ministry official in al-Quds, Israeli Ha'aretz daily reports.

The Zionist regime views the pipeline to Haifa as a bonus that the US can trade in return for explicit support for the invasion of Iraq.

The new pipeline would take oil from Kirkuk, where some 40 percent of Iraqi oil is produced, and transport it via Mosul to Jordan and then to Haifa in Israel.

The US 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.

In response to this possibility, Turkey has warned the Zionist regime that it would regard the development as a serious blow to Turkish-Israeli relations.

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