The Work of Our Legal Attaché
06/29/07



In this age of globalization, protecting the U.S. takes us to many different parts of the world. That includes the Middle East, where we now have permanent offices in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Pakistan, Jordan, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and more recently, Iraq.

Our Baghdad office was officially opened in the U.S. Embassy in March 2005, though our people were on the ground in the country two years earlier. Today, we have dozens of special agents, intelligence analysts, and other professionals in Iraq, making it one of our largest international contingents.

“Why are we in Baghdad? Because we have to be,â€