1.  At Mostar, the old Ottoman bridge is being rebuilt and its soaring arch is beginning to take form.

2.  Just fourteen months ago, on a bleak, frosty afternoon, I stopped my car beside an old Ottoman bridge in southern Kosovo.

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

4.  Muslim city officials are eager to rebuild the elegant Ottoman bridge, and several international agencies said they were ready to help.

5.  The elegant Ottoman bridge connects the Bosnian Croat and Muslim halves of the eastern Bosnian city.

6.  Under the plan, the Ottoman bridge would also go to the Bosnians.