Jordan's King Abdullah II and US President George W. Bush discussed Iraq and other Mideast issues in a telephone call Friday, the official Petra news agency reported. Iraq's parliamentary elections, held Thursday, were among topics discussed by the two leaders, Petra said without providing further details. Jordan is a close US ally that neighbors Iraq. More than 30,000 Iraqi expatriates living here cast ballots in the elections.function initServerVars() { _headup.clientHost = 'http://newstopics.jpost.com'; _headup.termsFromServer = 0; _headup.annotatedTerms = 0; _headup.widgetMode = 'snippet'; _headup.snippetButtonStyle = 'banner'; _headup.blackListedUrl = false; } <!-- Terms Count: 0 TTL: 4 Terms From Server: DateTime: 6/11/2011 11:24:49 PM -->