'...Rezerve olova i cinka se procenjuju na 42,2 miliona tona...'

. Reserves of lead and zinc are estimated to be around 42.2 millions of tons...

Započinjanje sa eksploatacijom lignita dovelo bi do otvaranja više od 35.000 radnih mesta i donelo ogromne prihode lokalnom budžetu. U ukupnim rezervama lignita u Srbiji više od 76 odsto nalazi se na Kosovu i ne treba, međutim, zanemariti činjenicu da se u kosovskim rudnicima nalaze i retki metali poput indijuma, kalijuma i germanijuma. Svetska banka je rudna bogatstva Kosova i Metohije procenila na oko 20 milijardi evra – istakao je Popović.

World Bank has estimated that Kosovo has natural resources valued at approximately 20 BILLION EUROS, according to the Mr. Popovic!!!!!!!!!
THERE YOU HAVE A GOOD REASON FOR the USA TO BE THERE...LONG LIVE THE BONDSTEEL BASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you please provide any reliable sources on the proven and probable deposits in those mines? I have never seen any reliable numbers, only assertions that the deposits are either very large or not large at all.

Yet another issue is: who is going to work in those mines? People who aren't used to doing anything productive? The reality of organized work in Kosovo could be a bit more complex than getting a group of Mexican illegals to do landscaping or construction in, say, Las Vegas for $5/hour under the table.

* news emerges that at least two of the three foreign ministries of Bulgaria, Hungary, and Croatia admitted to the Serbian Foreign Ministry that they were coerced into recognizing Kosovo

* long list of intellectuals (including bishops) in Orthodox Bulgaria deride's their government's actions in open letter and demand a reversal

* propoganda war to stir up troubles with 300K Hungarians in northern Serbia underway (again)...even though that minority is well-integrated and has proven largely immune to past efforts (note: ethnic Hungarians serve in the Serbian army and were also deployed against Albanians in 1999; many disillusioned Hungarians recently returned from their emmigration to Hungary to opt for the life they had in Serbia)

* Serbian minority party deputy prime minister resigns Croatia's government...PM Sanadar attempts to convince Serbian minority party to remain in coalition

* NATO troops turn protest and strikes in Mitrovica into bloody siege

* UNMIK administrtor resigns in disgust and tells Belgrade daily that the violence was UN's fault...UN says person in question is "on vacation" and unavilable for further comment

* UNMIK official reveals troops were ordered to not negotiate protestors out of Mitrovica buildings, but to arrest them and transport to jails in Pristina (preumably to Albanian run jails)

* Serbian government announces it has damning ballistics evidence from Mitrovica siege that suggests NATO troops are being used in deliberate provocation...demanding a UN inquiry

* Ukranian policeman dies in Mitrovica siege...Ukrainian government says his death was UN's fault

* White House announces it is sending "small arms" to Kosovo Albanians to protect against unrest

* Russian government demanding emergency meeting with NATO-Russia Council on announcement of arms shipments

* propoganda offensives and counter-offensives emerging on cultural and scene...the Serbian gold medalist swimmer's sanctions being one of the latest...winner of Sweden's national Eurovision competition appears on stage with Serbian flag...rebuff to the globalist Carl Bildt?...Eurovision championships scheduled to be held in Belgrade this May, weeks after parliamentary election that is to decide Serbia's "European view"

Does this sound like anyone is trying to preserve "stability" in the region, as they say?

MILORAD CAVIC is a Serbian Pride and HERO!!! YOU DID THE RIGHT THING, MILORADE!!!

http://www.serbianna.com/news/2008/01823.shtml

Our first answer is found at URL: http://www.namebase.org/xelm/Gabriel-Escobar.html

IN CONCLUSION: I am surprised he came to unfurl his cloak of whatever "function" he holds at his present post -- but the motives were obviously sinister.
Perhaps because in Italian sinistra means "to the left" -- maybe he's only left handed, in which I see no crime, but all else above gives me pause.

We have crossed over into the diabolical part of existence. It doesn't exactly look like Dante's Inferno but all else points that way. Look up "Tent city, Ontario, California" - to see that thousands of Americans live like Serbian refugees did during their exodus from Krajina, Bosnia and Kosovo.