[AI help in looting enemy camps?]

If you clear out a camp and send a squad to attack it, they will loot everything they can carry, then just cancel the raid and they run it back to the camp they came from

[Traders]

So while playing around a bit, I came across a trader camp that one of my hunting parties was attacking, after they killed the traders, I got a notification stating that the area had been liberated. Is this working as intended, or just ai failing to recognize non hostiles?