Get more visitors (from DHS) to your blog.....

A few days ago a list of Department of Homeland Security watchwords was released following an Freedom of Information request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The list contains a number of strange entries,including pork, stranded and smart. Here is the full list

Make of this list what you will, but if your visitor numbers are flagging, like mine are, then perhaps a sprinkling of the above phrases into innocuous posts will ring a few alarms and have the DHS visiting your blog. The more watch words, the more visits... well that's the theory!

If this list is correct, though I dread to think how many millions of false positives they throw up,,,

Yet another Al Qaida number two meets his demise

Today's Independent reports the death of yet another  al-Qa'ida second-in-command. This time The organisation's number two in Afghanistan was killed in a NATO air strike.


The attack in the easter Kunar province killed Sakhr al-Taifi , who frequently travelled between Afghanistan and Pakistan, carrying out commands from senior al-Qa'ida leaders.

The coalition said al-Taifi was responsible for commanding foreign insurgents in Afghanistan and directing attacks against coalition and Afghan forces. He also supplied weapons and equipment to eastern insurgents and transported fighters into Afghanistan.

The report goes on to say that al-Qa'ida's is believed to have only a nominal presence in Afghanistan.


Once again I must wonder how many number twos does Al Qaida get through? Given the number killed over the last ten years or so it must be the most perilous job on the planet! On the other hand the expression dead man's shoes does not mean a long wait for a lift up the career ladder.

Afghanistan's next number two is a small rock 3km north east of Kandahar

Al Qaeda's Number Two Killed.... Again!

Yesterday US Officials announced the death in Pakistan of Al Qaeda's number two man, the Libyan Atiyah abd al-Rahman.

He was apparently killed killed i Waziristan in a strike by an unmanned drone on August 22.

U.S. officials said: "Atiyah's death is a tremendous loss for al Qaeda, because (Zawahri) was relying heavily on him to help guide and run the organization, especially since bin Laden's death.The trove of materials from bin Laden's compound showed clearly that Atiyah was deeply involved in directing al Qaeda's operations even before the (May) raid. He had multiple responsibilities in the organization and will be very difficult to replace,"

Difficult to replace? I think Atiyah is the 847th deputy leader killed by US forces since 2001. Just three years ago Atiyah was the tea boy in Al Qaeda's office in Tuvalu so promotion can be quite rapid.

US forces are now hunting down Atiyah's succesor who is believed to be working as a sheepdog in the Brecon Beacons.

With so many number twos I am beginning to wonder if Al Qaeda is less a terrorist operation and more a serious case of dysentery.