Australian Soldiers, in Africa?

Interesting story in the SMH this morning about an Australian SAS squadron operating throughout Africa. Although seeing that almost anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa you can trip over an Australian mining company executive it seems that it is not only the US that are actively protecting their strategic interests.

From SMH.com

A SECRET squadron of Australian SAS soldiers has been operating at large in Africa, performing work normally done by spies, in an unannounced and possibly dangerous expansion of Australia's foreign military engagement.

The deployment of the SAS's 4 Squadron - the existence of which has never been publicly confirmed - has put the special forces unit at the outer reaches of Australian and international law.

The Herald has confirmed that troopers from the squadron have mounted dozens of secret operations during the past year in various African nations, including Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Kenya.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/secret-sas-teams-hunt-for-terrorists-20120312-1uwhy.html#ixzz1owieVs6s