October 07, 2003 From the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) :

There's an old canard about some Dinosaurs having intelligences so meagre that a Tyrannosaurus could be chomping away at their tails, and they'd only become aware of it minutes later.

A United Nations peacekeeping mission says it has wound up its mandate to patrol the border between Iraq and Kuwait after 12 years, because Iraq is no longer a threat to its smaller neighbour

The UN Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM) says in an advertisement in Kuwaiti newspapers that its mandate officially expired on Monday, but that its offices in Kuwait would stay open until the end of October.

The UN Security Council established UNIKOM in April 1991 following the ouster by a US-led coalition of Iraqi forces that occupied Kuwait in August 1990.

The UN Security Council voted in July to phase out the peacekeeping mission, saying it was "no longer necessary to protect against the threats to international security posed by Iraqi actions against Kuwait".