re: you can bet your bippy that it will have Oil under it.
Looking at the map of the oil fields, it looks like there is very little under Baghdad province; the big fields are in the old Mosul and Basra provinces. Both the Iraqi and the Saudis have the same problem -- it's not the ruling Sunnis who sit over the oil, it's the Shia, and in Iraq's case, the Kurds as well. So if Jordan just claimed the Sunni areas they wouldn't get much oil, unless someone seriously redraws the map.
to begin with, the article CB posted was about exactly that, redrawing the map, this was not my idea. LB said if they gonna do it, it's because of oil, I went hmmm and after looking at the maps it seemed reasonable.
The Jordanians could take a chunk of land to the east of their border with iraq, as much as they need until they get to a well or two, or sink something new, there is already a pipeline in the area, the whole place is deserted. Exactly how much oil do you think Jordan and Israel need.
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