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The Special Emergency Force (قوة الطوارئ الخاصة) is a special operations counter-terrorism unit of the Saudi Arabian Defence Forces. Similar units include the F.B.I. Hostage Rescue Team and the French GIGN.The SEFC was established in 1972 its main job was to control riots and demonstration alongside assisting other military and police forces in combating drug trafficking and criminals. Since 1995, with the first terrorist attacks on Saudi soil in Olaya, Riyadh, and then in 1996 in Al Khobar, the centre shifted to combating terrorism, and accordingly it retrained and reprogrammed its forces. Now there are 13 centres around the kingdom to combat terrorism.
