Tiger Squad

Rapid Intervention Force
Rapid Intervention Force
قوة تدخل سريع
Active	2017–present
Country	Saudi Arabia
Allegiance	Crown prince of Saudi Arabia
Branch	Saudi Royal Guard Regiment
Size	approx. 50
Nickname(s)	Tiger Squad
Engagements	Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
Commanders
Current; commander	Maj. Gen. Ahmad Asiri; Saud al-Qahtani;

The Tiger Squad (Arabic: فرقة النمر, Firqat el-Nemr), officially called the Rapid Intervention Force (Arabic: قوة التدخل السريع, Quat al-Tadakhul al-Sarie), is a protective security unit under the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman.^[1] According to an unnamed source interviewed by the London-based online news outlet Middle East Eye following the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 and a BBC source inside Saudi Arabia who has a relative in the squad, it is a Saudi team that consists of approximately fifty Saudi officers.^[2]^[3]

According to the Middle East Eye source, the Tiger Squad is a death squad of members from the military and intelligence agencies that has a mandate to carry out covert operations and executions, killing Saudi dissidents inside Saudi Arabia and abroad in a way that "goes unnoticed by the media, the international community".^[3] Sa'ad Al-Faqih, a Saudi opposition leader who claims he knows about this squad, confirmed that the role of the squad was to target and kill Saudi opponents.^[2]

^ "Saudi operatives who killed Khashoggi had paramilitary training in US -- report | The Times of Israel". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference BBC_night was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b Abu Sneineh, Mustafa (23 October 2018). "Revealed: The Saudi death squad MBS uses to silence dissent". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 22 October 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2018.

[timesofisrael.com-1] "Saudi operatives who killed Khashoggi had paramilitary training in US -- report | The Times of Israel". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2022-05-26.

[BBC_night-2] Cite error: The named reference BBC_night was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[middleeasteye/22oct2018-3] Abu Sneineh, Mustafa (23 October 2018). "Revealed: The Saudi death squad MBS uses to silence dissent". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 22 October 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2018.

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