SF types?  What are they going to provide that the Scimiters can't?

As much as I respect 'SF types', I think the Taliban hold far more respect for tanks, .50 cals, GPMG's and JDAM's.

according to one news report i watched there was a ghurka platoon camped scant few metres from his bedroll.  may not be SAS but they'd do in a pinch i expect.

Er since he was in a FOB operated by Gurkhas (out of Brunei - the Sultan is doing his bit here) it's not surprising. 

I've heard that Brunei has a Gurkha battalion.  Are they actually British army and British equipped, but based there as the result of some colonial agreement (as in 1/2 RGR?) or are they more departed than that now?

According to Wiki:
A battalion of the RGR is permanently stationed in Brunei, paid for by the Sultan of Brunei at a cost of approximately £40,000,000 per year

Forty million pounds a year?  Do they have solid gold rifles or something?

that's only about 27k pounds a year per man given there are 1500 odd souls in/attached to the battalion so it's not exactly exorbitant.  i've also read he has a personal bodyguard unit of retired british ghurkas.  uneasy lies the head that wears the crown and all that.

An F-15E was his contingency plan.look it up.