Jordan's Foreign Minister holds talks in Israel...

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Jordan's Foreign Minister Hani Mulki has held talks in Israel and the Palestinian territories on the first trip of its kind in four years.
Mr Mulki met Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank town of Ramallah where he discussed last month's peace accord signed in Egypt.

He also met Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom ahead of talks with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Sunday.

Israel has said it may return Jordanian prisoners to Jordan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4321015.stm

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1. Interesting since I just read this

U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil from northern Iraq to Haifa, via Jordan
Posted Aug 23, 2004
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 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.





http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=332835&sw=Haifa%20Mosul

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2. You just knew there had to be an 'oil angle'. Amazing....n/t