"It really is a scene out of a Mad Max movie ? incredibly lawless with no one fully controlling the highways" - The Daily Telegraph | Aussie hired guns in Iraq

"...About 100 Australians ? including about 40 former SAS troops ? are working as hired guns in private security forces.

The Daily Telegraph has learned the former SAS elite earn up to $9000 a week to guard corporate managers and infrastructure projects.

... An unknown number of international privateers among the estimated 10,000 security contractors have been killed.

Some, like the four US security contractors slain in Fallujah last month, have suffered a gruesome and very public death."