In Kosovo, sacrificing principles for oil

Tribune Democrat ^ | February 22, 2008 | ZACHARY HUBBARD

[Bokababe]

http://www.newkosovareport.com/20080110426/Region/Vast-oil-reserves-found-in-northern-Albania.html

What do you bet that they have already more found oil & gas in Kosovo?

[Bokababe]

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Yes, folks, Kosovo’s independence is all about oil – at least from a Western perspective.
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If true.....this is sickening.

[rockinqsranch]

I have read of multiple mines of minerals and coal. Tons of coal, but never anything about Oil and gas deposits in Kosovo. The knowledge of these deposits had to have been confirmed at least in the mid ‘90’s for what has happened since, and until now.

This will be interesting to watch.

[shuckmaster]

There's some interesting info on this link

[Bokababe]

It is absolutely true that they discovered oil & gas in “Northern Albania”, along the Kosovo border http://www.newkosovareport.com/20080110426/Region/Vast-oil-reserves-found-in-northern-Albania.html
I have little doubt that it is Kosovo. Rebecca West, in the late 1930’s mentioned that “oil was bubbling out of the ground” where she sat.

[Tailgunner Joe]

the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG), a nonprofit, independent, nongovernmental organization that works to resolve world conflicts through diplomacy, reported in July 2006 that “a tiny but growing minority (in Albania) is turning toward Wahhabi Islam.”

ICG is a Soros org. So we should listen to Soros propaganda as long as it is anti-Albanian, right?

[The_Reader_David]

And of course the same ‘Anti-War’ folks who chant ‘no blood for oil’ were just thrilled when the blood being shed as Serbian, shed by NATO bombs.

Our local “Campaign for Peace and Justice” which has opposed every US military action made an exception for murdering Orthodox Christian from 15,000 feet.

[Species8472]

The announcement indicated that there are potentially 3 billion barrels of oil and 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the areas explored. Some of these areas lie near Albania’s border with Kosovo.

Drop in the Bucket

ANWR is estimated to have 15 Billion bbls

[ANGGAPO]

I am getting very tired of reading about Bush at the root of all that is wrong with the world. I suspect this is the same BS that says that the only reason we are in Iraq is for the oil. I thought that the Iraqis were selling it on the world market, how dumb can I be.

[eleni121]

The rest of the story there bub: they used that little piece of propaganda to demand independence for Kosovo—

NO independecce more wahhabi...Blackmail!!

And we got both.

[Bokababe]

"ICG is a Soros org. So we should listen to Soros propaganda as long as it is anti-Albanian, right?"

Soros wants Kosovo Independence. Soros pushed for it, financed it. This guys isn't speaking FOR Soros. The ICG quote says "a tiny but growing minority (in Albania) is turning toward Wahhabi Islam.” It's likely that it is not so "tiny".

[Tailgunner Joe]

Maybe you should get a better source than a commie NGO which has George Soros on the Executive Committee.

[richardtavor]

“Moscow argued that those nations supporting the Kosovo split should have foreseen an angry Serb backlash. ... improved, with giant Gazprom buying Serbia’s main oil company NIS last month. The two countries have ... reservoir and the other on building a pipeline through Serbia to pump Russian gas to ...” IT IS NOT ABOUT SERBIA, IT IS ABOUT RUSSIA, AND THEIR ATTEMPT TO BUILD A PIPELINE THROUGH SERBIA.

[saganite]

Agreed. Although I disagree with our current policy in that area I’m pretty sick and tired of having some left wing org imply that everything is about oil. If these groups had the courage of their rhetoric they would be calling for the US to exploit it’s own reserves. The fact that they oppose that tells me it’s just propaganda.

[Bokababe]

"Drop in the Bucket. ANWR is estimated to have 15 Billion bbls"

And we will drill there soon? Not likely.

[richardtavor]

Absolutely not true—Gazprom wants a pipeline through Kosovo—there is no exploration in Kosovo as far as I know..

[richardtavor]

You mean like Jed Clampett

[Bokababe]

"Zachary Hubbard is a retired Army officer residing in Upper Yoder Township. He served as the chief of intelligence assessments and senior Balkans intelligence analyst for the NATO Stabilization Force in the former Yugoslavia."

And THIS makes the guy "a commie". You took one tiny quote out of a retired Army officer's article re "Wahhabi Albanians" and turned into he's a Soros "commie"? You've got a screw loose.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Believe propaganda from Soros NGO’s all you want. Just don’t expect the rest of us to side with foreigners against our own country just because you and Soros say we should.