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".[1] Sa'ad Al-Faqih, who claims he knows about this squad, confirmed that the role of the squad was to target and kill Saudi opponents.[2]