Die US-Truppen in Afghanistan können offenbar Austria und Australia nicht immer auseinanderhalten, berichtet Crickey in Oesterreich Australien aufgrund von Wikileaks Dokumenten:

In the earliest log, from August 2005, infantry from the US’ 82nd Airborne Division, known as Task Force Devil (TF Devil), raided a large cache of weapons “72km North of Camp Echo”. The weapons were found in the desolate hills of Ghazni Province, a Taliban-friendly region described by The New York Times as having “scant American presence since the war began in 2001”. Amongst the land mines, rifles and rockets, the troops reported finding “1 x 82mm Australian mortar”. In November 2005, TF Devil reported finding “two Australian 82mm mortar rounds” in a weapons cache in the city of Khost, capital of the Khost province that lies along the troubled border with Pakistan. In January 2008, Afghan National Police retrieved the components of an IED, including an Australian hand grenade. While the Defence task force report has not been released, the ADF has told Crikey the suspected mistaken identity is “due to the high volume of Austrian ordnance in Afghanistan (and limited amount of Australian ordnance)”.