Jim Steele Biography

Jim Steele is the president of J&D International a consulting firm specializing in corporate and personal security with offices in Houston and The Woodlands Texas. From May 2003 until assuming the position of senior counselor to Ambassador Bremer for Iraqi security forces in November 2003 he was the senior police advisor with the Iraqi police SWAT unit in Baghdad. In April 2004 prior to the Marine offensive in Fallujah Jim led a small group of Iraqi police and U.S. advisors on an undercover operation into the city to recover the remains of the Blackwater contractors that had been ambushed and killed there determine exactly what had occurred and assess the enemy situation. The success of this mission was repeatedly demonstrated by the superb performance of these protective security details under fire. In November 2004 the Iraqi commando unit that he was advising came under attack by a large insurgent force in Mosul. During the Iraqi elections in January 2005 the Iraqi commandos with which he was operating were a key force in protecting the polling sites in Baghdad and pivotal in the overall success of the election process. In a recent article in The New York Times Magazine he was described as

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