1.   Many Belgrade Serbs say that they never travel to Kosovo and that their only interest in the place is in preserving its medieval Orthodox monasteries.

2.   Ottoman bridges and monasteries have been flattened, Catholic churches of Croats destroyed, Orthodox monasteries of Serbs razed.

3.   Over the last four years, the Croats have blown up Orthodox monasteries and destroyed memorials to Serbs who died in World War II.

4.   They journey to an Orthodox monastery near Blanco, where an icon of the Virgin Mary reportedly weeps tears that can help the sick and suffering.

5.   With these hatreds, countless Catholic churches, Orthodox monasteries, and mosques have been defiled or destroyed over the last three years.

6.   Work began on an Orthodox monastery at the site, but its foundations were later blown up by the Catholic Croats during the Bosnian war.

7.   But a smaller group of Serbs outside an Orthodox monastery made obscene gestures and spit at her motorcade as she sped away in an armored car.

8.   Everywhere, dotted between the mosques and Orthodox monasteries of Kosovo, the traditionally large Albanian families are building houses.

9.   For centuries, crown princes of Europe, Russian emperors and Middle Eastern rulers lavished the Orthodox monastery with gifts and protection of all kinds.

10.   Hundreds of Orthodox monasteries and churches, many dating from the middle ages, are concentrated in Kosovo.