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Is the Special Security Force Command really "under the command" of the NSA? Also, is the SSFC really the "riot police?" The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry report describes the security apparatus like this:



It sounds to me like the "special forces department" is under the command of the Public Security Forces, which reports directly to MoI. Is the "special forces department" the "Special Security Force Command?" Also, the fact that BICI distinguishes "riot control units" from "special forces" makes me think that the "riot police" are different from the SSFC. The BICI report later refers to the Ministry of Interior's "Department of Riot Police" (1316). Billmarczak (talk) 10:53, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I can confirm that only a small minority of riot police have the SSFC mark on their jackets [1] [2], in fact I only started to notice this after reading the article. I believe the author attributed SSCF to NSA because of HRW report [3]


About the quotes from BICI, it's seems much more detailed and is probably more accurate, go ahead and add it. Bahraini Activist (talk) 18:37, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to close this today after creating Public Security Forces article, but I ended up in contradiction between BCHR and HRW on one side and BICI report on the other side. One thing is confirmed however, SSFC is special forces or part of it. It seems that due to the need of man power to crackdown on protests, special forces are now working hand in hand with riot forces, which is probably why the author got confused. I have found a Facebook and Twitter pages relating to SSFC and while the first displays info taken from this article, both of them have Ministry of Interior as their website and the guy running them seems to be part of or working with riot police. I'm not sure how to close this. Bahraini Activist Talk to me 16:24, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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