The label certainly appears to fit in the minds of British police.
Scotland Yard, the UK's police force, has given Obama the security
codename 'Chalaque' for his visit this week to the United Kingdom, the UK Daily Mail reports. The term is reportedly a Punjabi word meaning someone who is too clever for his own good, according to the newspaper.
A Punjabi speaker told
the newspaper that the word is 'not considered rude', but could be
'mildly offensive'. "It is also said to mean 'cheeky, crafty and
cunning'," the paper notes.
Scotland Yard insiders told the Sunday Times that
codewords are randomly generated by computer, "but the paper wondered
why officials decided to stick with them, when they could have simply
had another word selected that would be less provocative," the paper
notes.
As in Britain, security code names are used in
America by U.S. Secret Service to identify high-profile individuals
under their protection.
President Obama's code name at the time of the 2008
election was "Renegade" and Michelle Obama's was "Renaissance." Secret
Service code names typically change over time.
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