1.   Britain and France are among the few countries in Europe that stock depleted uranium ammunition, although they did not use it in Kosovo.

2.   Depleted uranium ammunition is made from a radioactive and toxic metal that is twice as dense as lead.

3.   Depleted uranium ammunition was also used in Kosovo, NATO has told those defusing the bombs and clearing the mines.

4.   NATO had warned the civilian population about mines but not about uranium ammunition.

5.   Arafat has repeatedly alleged that Israeli soldiers are using depleted uranium ammunition and poison gas against Palestinians, but he has offered no evidence.

6.   Arafat has repeatedly alleged that Israeli soldiers are using depleted uranium ammunition and poison gas against Palestinians, a charge that Israel has denied.

7.   Contamination from depleted uranium ammunition used in Kosovo is low, but the threat of radiation in the water supply remains, the United Nations Environment Program said Tuesday.

8.   Countries that sent peacekeepers to Bosnia and Kosovo have been looking for links between the depleted uranium ammunition and illnesses contracted by veterans.

9.   In Greece, meanwhile, the military said Monday that it would withdraw depleted uranium ammunition from active use but was not yet pulling peacekeepers out of Kosovo.

10.   In Kosovo, which bore the brunt of the NATO bombing, the U.N. mission has begun marking sites where depleted uranium ammunition is known to have been used.