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Tel Aviv - Despite the Israeli airline's tight security, unknown vandals spray-painted anti-Semitic slogans inside the cargo bay of an El-Al passenger plane, probably as it was docked in Milan, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday. The slogans, in Arabic, included "Death to the Jews," the Yediot Ahronot daily said.El-Al staff members discovered them as they were loading luggage onto the plane at Milan's Malpensa Airport before it was heading back to Tel Aviv. The perpetrator spray-painted the graffiti in the plane's cargo bay earlier, probably shortly after it landed in Milan and as luggage was being unloaded.But it could have been carried out earlier, while the plane was at another destination, said the daily, which quoted Malpensa's airport police and Italian and Israeli police and security officials.A team of Italian inspectors launched a thorough investigation and questioned all ground staff that had been in contact with the plane.El-Al is considered one the most secured airlines in the world.A spokeswoman for the airline would not give details about the incident because it was a security-related issue."Since El-Al was founded, security constitutes a top value for it and a corner stone on which the company's activities rest on all flights in Israel and abroad.""The company does not compromise on the issue of security in any way, also not regarding the current incident," she said in a written statement sent to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.El-Al demanded an investigation into the incident as soon as it learned of it, the statement added.As in the days of Noah.....
