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Pro-Palestinian graffiti found inside El Al plane in Italy
By Reuters
Tags: airport security, El Al 

MILAN - Pro-Palestinian graffiti written in Arabic was found scrawled inside the cargo hold of an El Al plane during unloading at Milan's Malpensa airport Monday, raising Israeli concerns about Italian airport security.

"It was something like 'Long Live Palestine'," written with a marker pen, Raffaele Veri of the Malpensa airport police told reporters on Tuesday. "It has happened once before."

Israel's flag carrier, which normally uses round-the-clock security for its planes, said in a statement it had demanded an investigation into Monday's incident, without giving any further details of what had happened.
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"Immediately upon receiving word of the incident, the company demanded that an investigation be launched into the circumstances surrounding it," El Al said.

Italian police said the security breach was unlikely to have happened at Malpensa, as the plane had only just landed when the graffiti was discovered.

The Israeli embassy in Rome said it does not comment on security matters.

A source close to the Italian airport police said local authorities only learned of the graffiti after the plane left the Italian airport for Tel Aviv on Monday.




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      2.   Long Dead Greek Philistine revived by Desert Arabs (no relation) 00:39  |  Genuine Tosefta 12/03/08
      3.   to#2 Why People like you try to make enemies? 02:03  |  pal 12/03/08
      4.   The Only Way Palestine Will Live Long Is ... 02:27  |  Brad 12/03/08
      5.   Yes POP...it does 02:30  |  Dan 12/03/08
      6.   More security 02:31  |  Marcelo 12/03/08
      7.   PAL 02:40  |  Brad 12/03/08
      8.   lol 04:19  |  S 12/03/08
      9.   to 2# 04:19  |  Ben 12/03/08
      10.   Re #1 05:22  |  Avi 12/03/08
      11.   Damn liberals! 05:34  |  Mark Lincoln 12/03/08
      12.   #6 Avi 07:17  |  Space 12/03/08
      13.   funny 07:20  |  yezmar 12/03/08
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      16.   It`s joke Avi #6 08:12  |  Paul the hip dude 12/03/08
      17.   re #10 08:26  |  i hate idiots 12/03/08
      18.   to PAL. your figures are wrong 08:37  |  charro 12/03/08
      19.   What haaretz and reuters are trying to COVER UP 08:53  |  CK Tan 12/03/08
      20.   YOU DON`T EVEN KNOW FOR SURE 09:14  |  indrajaya 12/03/08
      21.   To Paul...there is nothing hip about anti-semitism 09:27  |  SLAVO 12/03/08
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      43.   Our Land 17:03  |  Allon 12/03/08
      44.   Of course, when most of staff that do fisical jobs at the 17:25  |  IL supporter 12/03/08
      45.   Of course, when most of staff that do fisical jobs at the 17:25  |  IL supporter 12/03/08
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