Rove accompanied the president during the Sharm e-Sheik and Aqaba summits.
You can also travel between Tala Bay and Aqaba by boat, which offers good views of the city and allows for snorkelling with turtles, angelfish, tigerfish, seahorses and dolphins.
Ditto joint infrastructure projects, announced with much fanfare but still to be begun, such as an airport at the head of the Red Sea, to serve both Eilat and Aqaba.
It is partly thanks to the success of Aqaba and the free trade agreement with the US that US President George W Bush recently announced plans to expand the free trade zone throughout the Middle East.
Lawrence decided to attack from the east instead, coming at the city from the unprotected desert, and to do that he led his men on an audacious, six-hundred-mile loop up from the Hejaz, north into the Syrian desert, and then back down toward Aqaba.
Crude oil prices rose following the fire at the massive Paraguana refining complex, which, combined with a halt in Ecuador's exports, and a reported blast at the Aqaba port of Jordan, was enough to give the market the jitters.
And Simon Murie, founder of niche tour operator Swimtrek, says the Strait of Hormuz (Oman-Iran), Gulf of Aqaba (Egypt-Saudi Arabia) and La Perouse Strait (Hokkaido, Japan - Sakhalin, Russia) are all waiting to be swum.
At a press conference at the National Press Club at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, the Center for Security Policy will reveal the results of a national poll conducted last week in the wake of the Aqaba summit between President Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
As the accredited port of entry for Iraqi food supplies, Aqaba is now a major trading centre attracting foreign companies such as rice and wheat distributors from Australia.
"He does not take no for an answer and the word impossible is not in his vocabulary, " says Akel Bitaji, chief commissioner of the Aqaba Special Economic Authority.
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