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France: Arabic graffiti found daubed on easyJet planes’ fuel tanks

Nov 28, 2015 1:48 pm By Robert Spencer

“Graffiti in itself won’t hurt anybody. But the ability of anyone to place a prohibited item near fuel tanks is a concern, of course. We know there are people working in restricted areas of airports with extremist sympathies.” Why?

easyJet

“Arabic graffiti found daubed on easyjet planes’ fuel tanks,” Telegraph, November 28, 2015:

Arabic graffiti was found daubed on panels covering fuel tanks of easyJet planes at French airports.

An investigation is being carried out into who made the inscriptions, which were written on four planes in France. The airports cannot be identified for security reasons.

Lisa King, easyJet cabin safety manager, alerted company employees to the graffiti with an email reading: “As of today we have had four aircraft in France with written inscriptions on the inside of the fuel panel, and toilet door in Arabic script.”

A spokeswoman for easyJet said the matter was not considered to be a threat and no passengers had to be removed from the aircraft.

She said: “EasyJet assessed this issue, each time working in full consultation with the authorities, and is entirely satisfied it is nothing more than graffiti.

“EasyJet takes very seriously any security related issue and would not operate a flight unless we are entirely satisfied it is completely safe to do so.

“EasyJet operates its fleet of aircraft in full compliance with all regulations. The safety and security of its passengers and crews is always easyJet’s highest priority.”

The graffiti was found less than two weeks after 130 people were killed in terror attacks in the country’s capital.

A lady wrapped in a foil blanket is evacuated from Le Bataclan Paris Terror AttacksA lady wrapped in a foil blanket is evacuated from the Bataclan Photo: AP

Philip Baum, editor of Aviation Security International, told The Sun: “Graffiti in itself won’t hurt anybody. But the ability of anyone to place a prohibited item near fuel tanks is a concern, of course.”

“We know there are people working in restricted areas of airports with extremist sympathies.”

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  1. R Cole says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 2:06 pm

    The French are reporting the graffiti on one of the EasyJet planes read, drum roll…. ‘Allah Akbar!’

    The words “Allah Akbar” were found to have been scrawled on a fuel tank hatch of one Easyjet plane at Charles de Gaulle airport on Tuesday, a day after the aircraft arrived from Budapest, an airport source said, adding it was scrubbed off before the next passengers embarked.

    Easyjet serves 17 French destinations and the airline said there had been a “small number” of such cases — though not all in Arabic — over the past fortnight since the deadly Paris attacks claimed by Islamist extremists.

    http://www.france24.com/en/20151128-arabic-graffiti-found-easyjet-vueling-planes-france

    ::

    And how will we deal with this new terrorist threat – we’ll talk even louder about climate change and crack down on freedom of speech!

    • Neil Jennison says

      Nov 28, 2015 at 2:22 pm

      “”And how will we deal with this new terrorist threat – we’ll talk even louder about climate change and crack down on freedom of speech!””

      You forgot to mention we will keep repeating the mantra “Nothing to do with Islam the religion of peace.”

      • Infidels of the world unite says

        Nov 28, 2015 at 10:24 pm

        Seriously, the mere fact that they keep shouting “Islam the religion of peace” says a lot. Christians do not repeat every day that Christianity is peaceful, abhors terrorism, etc. to the media. Buddhists don’t do it either. In fact only muslims do that.

    • Oliver says

      Nov 28, 2015 at 5:11 pm

      A SMALL NUMBER OF —SINCE THE PARIS MURDERS.

      THAT WAS -AM I WRONG-JUST OVER A WEEK AGO.

      What the f are the frogs waiting for?

      More Paris attacks?

      And more such great lines like Prince Charles that it is due to climate change; the Useless nations condemning Israel for everything; or some such nonsense,.

      They ( and the US ) had better wake up.

      And some frog anal has the balls to criticize Mr. Trump? (But no balls to protect their country- nothing, it seems, with frogs, has changed from 1940 until now,

  2. Hope says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 2:06 pm

    OK! So….. if “we” know there are people with extremist sympathies working in restricted ares of airports, why don’t “we” get those people out of there? Why are “we” monitoring and keeping track of these individuals who are a known threat to society? How high does the body count have to go before something is done?

    • خَليفة says

      Nov 28, 2015 at 2:34 pm

      Governments watch and observe in hopes of gaining more information.

      The Pearl Harbor attack in WWII could have been prevented – US knew it was coming as US had broken the Japanese codes – US knew it would get pulled into war soon and believed having broken the Japanese codes would help, which in fact they did throuout the pacific theatre. If US had intercepted and stopped Pearl Harbour attack, the Japanese would have realized the codes were compromised and changed the codes. This would have changed the course of pacific rim battles and caused more loss of life for US and Japan.

      This is how effective governments work. Sadly, it often comes down to numbers – the good of the many.

      Terrorists my “test” a scinaro to see how Government/company/people/etc. responds, and how fast. By not responding to a non-lethal threat in the same way you would to a lethal one, the terrorist does not get the info they wanted.
      A terrorist who knows he is being watched will change his plans.

      • dajjal says

        Nov 29, 2015 at 1:18 am

        The AssWhole who stabbed students & staff at a college in Oregon was under surveilance. The Brothers Tsarnaev were on a Russian watch list. The AssWholes who tried to shoot up Garland were being watched. Lotsa good surveilance does.

        Common sense dictates not permitting enemy combatants access to critical infrastructure. A nation with patriotic and intelligent leaders would not allow Muslims to work at airports, drive trucks & buses, carry guns or have an opportunity to poison the food or water supplies.

        We need to elect people who understand that Muslims are enemy combatants motivated by the damnable doctines of Islam: Allah’s imperatives, threat & proimise. Anyone who believes he gets Brownie Points for hurting us or pissing us off should not be allowed within our borders, much ness access to critical infrastructure.

        • Dr. Divinity says

          Nov 29, 2015 at 5:26 pm

          If someone qualifies for a”watch list” It is time to act…if our laws aren’t strong enough to take action then make the laws stronger. We don’t have Strong enough laws to cover Islamic terrorist…Come on lawmakers get busy..put some teeth in laws covering the present problems with these Muslim terrorists.

          All mosques should be monitored…we are not dealing with Methodist and Baptist here….but I can guarantee that if any Christian churches started what the muslims are doing law enforcement would be on them like why I on rice.

    • Oliver says

      Nov 28, 2015 at 5:13 pm

      The number of the body count is immaterial. SOMETHING WILL BE DONE WHEN ONE OF THE BODIES IS A POLITICIAN OR A POLITICIAN’S RELATIVE; OR A LARGE BRIBER–I MEAN CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTOR.

      Just my cynical view.

      • ? says

        Nov 28, 2015 at 6:05 pm

        Yeah the next target is supposed to be in New York, I wonder if they take out a few politicians and members of the United Nations how fast will everyone retaliate…..against climate change, Israel, and of course, islamophobia.

        • Oliver says

          Nov 29, 2015 at 6:18 pm

          ? I fear that you are right.

          I have posted (JW did not) in several JW posts- Monday-the first Monday after the Paris attacks–THE SWEDISH FOREIGN MINISTER SAID–SEEMINGLY WITH A STRAIGHT FACE– THAT THE ATTACKS WERE THE FAULT OF ISRAEL.

          So, will future Al Qeida and ISIS attacks.

          Note, Prince Charles (my view–another useless person with a useless job?) joins such MENSA people like Kerry that climate change is responsible for the Syrian War ( my view–casualties-on all sides way too low).

          Ignoring Sunni/Shia hatred, etc.

    • Peggy says

      Nov 29, 2015 at 8:47 pm

      Just wondering if Churchill would employ Nazi sypathisers to work in these jobs.

  3. خَليفة says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 2:14 pm

    France has tactile nukes. How about sending one to Al-bagdhadi in Raqqa.
    Close and destroy all mosques in France.

    Put up signs:
    “Muslim bite worse than bark”
    “the only good Muslim is an ex-Muslim”

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Nov 28, 2015 at 2:37 pm

      The Telegraph article refers to “Arabic graffiti” but won’t quote them or show a photo of them. The France24 article (thanks, R Cole) quotes them as “Allah Akbar”. Isn’t that ungrammatical? I thought it was “AllahU Akbar”. خَليفة suggests that a touchy-feely French nuke be sent Raqqa-way.

      • خَليفة says

        Nov 28, 2015 at 2:45 pm

        Recall that the majority of muslims world wide are illiterate. Even those with Arabic as first language, Most can’t read or write Arabic. So a grammatical syntactic err would not automatically rule out a cray cray Muslim.

        The tactile nuke to Raqqa is more for the Paris thang then the graffiti…

        • خَليفة says

          Nov 28, 2015 at 8:24 pm

          Mark, Haha, Tactical I mean tactical

          Not doing so good on being literate myself.

    • Oliver says

      Nov 29, 2015 at 6:25 pm

      The problem with NUCLEAR WEAPONS of any type– THE RADIOACTIVITY CHANGES; AND CAN AFFECT PEOPLE DECADES LATER.

      I speak from experience (unfortunately). (My brother was exposed–as an 18 year old-to nuclear tests.

      At the age of 59- 41 plus years later, he developed an inoperable-strange cancer-(not like any other-normal time from appearance to death 1 to 4 WEEKS. Cancer spreads from organ to organ, and destroys all.

      A nuke in Syria would also wipe out Israel, and with wind currents-possibly other nations -including in Europe.

      One of the reasons MAD worked so well in the Cold War–The USSR as well as The US were governed by (more or less) sane people.

      Bombing the hell out of Raqqa–fine; as well as other parts of Syria (and Lebanon and Iran and Iraq –and Algeria, etc.–fine, as far as I am concerned. But conventional bombs, and incendiaries.

  4. Ken says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 2:14 pm

    “We know there are people working in restricted areas of airports with extremist sympathies.”

    WHY?

    • Daniel Triplett says

      Nov 29, 2015 at 3:14 pm

      Because to deny them employment because they’re Muslim is illegal.

      Hence, the reason we must make Islam illegal altogether.

      If I were to create a religion from scratch today, and make it look exactly like Islam, but instead called it “Danianity,” running around proselytizing others to believe and do the same, I’d be locked up in prison.

      So why is it we insist on pretending Islam is a religion? Just because a 7th century psychopath said so? Just because 1.6 Billion demonologists now say it’s their religion? Why aren’t we calling it what it really is, Capital Felony? With Sedition and Conspiracy to Murder right at the top of a list including scores of other heinous crimes.

      “Freedom of Religion” doesn’t include inventing religions which contravene our Constitution. No one gets to slap a “RELIGION” sticker on a crime, then call it a religion.

  5. Theodoric says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 2:14 pm

    “We know there are people with extremist sympathies working in restricted areas of our airports. But it would obviously be quite offensive to the 1.6 billion Muslims of the world – the followers of a great world religion – to deprive any Muslim of the opportunity to write graffiti threatening Allah’s enemies, or even to try to install explosives, wherever he might want. We will not allow ourselves to be turned into greasy Islamophiles just to prevent a few jets from being blown up.”

    • خَليفة says

      Nov 28, 2015 at 2:39 pm

      Remember, it’s only a phobia if the fear is irrational.

      #NukeMecca

      The only good Muslim is an ex-Muslim.

      • ? says

        Nov 28, 2015 at 5:51 pm

        Agreed…

  6. Theodoric says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 2:17 pm

    “We know there are people with extremist sympathies working in restricted areas of our airports. But it would obviously be quite offensive to the 1.6 billion Muslims of the world – the followers of a great world religion – to deprive any Muslim of the opportunity to write graffiti threatening Allah’s enemies, or even to try to install explosives, wherever he might want. We will not allow ourselves to be turned into greasy ISLAMOPHOBES just to prevent a few jets from being blown up.”

  7. jayell says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 2:47 pm

    Arabic script always did look like graiffiti daubings to me anyway

  8. Peter Hyatt says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    France and fighting back?

    With what, flowers?

    http://analysistomorrow.blogspot.com/2015/11/dhimmitude-status-step-by-step.html

    • Oliver says

      Nov 28, 2015 at 5:16 pm

      Peter H–you are correct.

      France feel to the Nazis in about 1 week; Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto-with no weapons, fought longer.

      And that was the French military.

      Ad for a French rifle for sale–NEVER FIRED; DROPPED ONCE.

  9. sheik yer'mami says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 4:20 pm

    “Allah akbar!”
    Our security is already outsourced and in the hands of Muslims; our baggage handlers are Muslims, our cleaners and flight attendants are Muslims, our pilots…. now wait a minute! Are you scaremongering again, you racist-bigot-Islamophobe?

  10. Mo says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 4:53 pm

    “The airports cannot be identified for security reasons.”

    Uh, after the fact, it’s bit late to be worrying about security. Don’t you think?

    These people are criminally and suicidally STUPID!

  11. somehistory says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 5:19 pm

    Too bad it’s not harmless, like “Kilroy was here.”

    And how can the airline be sure that the flight is safe? Are they checking every inch of the plane and refueling, just in case?

    Finding out that “we” are aware of the many security risks posed by the *extremists* working in supposedly secure areas must cause many travelers to pause and question if the flight is necessary.

    The beast from satan will not let up until it is destroyed. satan will keep it going until God throws the evil serpent dragon into the abyss.

  12. MS says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 5:57 pm

    Graffiti is harmless, but for some body to be able to do it is very scary. It is no assurance if they catch the offenders, its the ones who remain at large who should scare us. Many of those hide behind the “most Muslims are peaceful ” label.

    The world worked hard to make flying a reality, Muslims contributed nothing to that enormous human effort, and when they decided to make a contribution they introduced air terrorism.

    It is sad to say, but there may be a case for stereotyping those who tend to harm the rest of the society.

    http://www.faithfreedom.org/stereotyping-muslims/

  13. Angemon says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 6:47 pm

    “We know there are people working in restricted areas of airports with extremist sympathies.”

    Knowing that, why are they allowed to work there?

    • Daniel Triplett says

      Nov 29, 2015 at 8:34 pm

      Because the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) forces companies to hire these conspirators in crime. Anyone who dares to complain will get fired.

      We’re our own worst enemy.

  14. BS says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    We know that some Islamic extremists work in French airports. Arabic graffiti has been found daubed on fuel tanks of airliners taking off from France. The airline says there’s no danger to passengers whatsoever. So that’s alright, then.

  15. somehistory says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 10:55 pm

    Note: Graffiti is not…repeat not,. harmless.
    Forget that it damages property and costs money to remove it.

    In the past, hobos…those guys who rode trains all over the country…used graffiti to tell other hobos which trains were less likely to have a conductor that would throw them off, which houses were an easy mark for food or spare change, which houses were inhabited by little old ladies alone, which doors were habitually left unlocked, etc.

    Gangs have used graffiti to send messages to other gang members and to rival gangs. And in at least one case, gangs were using graffiti on fences in one particular neighborhood as a warning to homeowners.

    Terrorists might do the same thing and leave a message that tells their cohorts which plane is the target. It could also be used in other places to let other moslims know what to expect.

    Graffiti may not directly harm a person, passenger, citizen…but it is not harmless.

  16. RichardL says

    Nov 29, 2015 at 3:07 am

    next time you fly out of Charles De Gaulle look out of the window to check who is putting the luggage on the plane. At least one of the loads will have a two-fist long beard, shaved upper lip, skullcap, short trouser legs… I am so happy that I don’t have to use that airport any longer.

    • Daniel Triplett says

      Nov 29, 2015 at 8:43 pm

      That describes just about every airport from England to Indonesia.

      • RichardL says

        Nov 30, 2015 at 6:47 am

        I have over half a million miles in my frequent flyer account currently and I have not seen anything of the sort in any non-Mohammedan country except France. But then I have successfully avoided British airports.

        It is like employing people with Nazi armbands to ring the sirens during the Blitz.

        • Daniel Triplett says

          Dec 1, 2015 at 2:14 am

          I’m an ex C-5 pilot, afterward a 757/767/747 pilot whose flown all over the World. Unfortunately, the problem is pretty common.

          Just look at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport, for example, a major Delta hub. All the people cleaning the trash, magazines, and seat belts between flights are all Somali Muslimas wearing hijabs.

          But outside of 1st World airports especially, I’ve noticed scores of “Muslim looking guys” working in and around the airplane. And unless you have a non-Muslim guy following each one around, the opportunity for sabotage far exceeds the ability to prevent it.

          Inside jobs would be super easy, but so would walking through a hole in the fence.

  17. Ashley says

    Nov 29, 2015 at 10:12 am

    “Allah Akbar” tagged on an aircraft is dismissed as “harmless graffiti”?

    I deem it as a genuine threat. It reeks of “Look how easy it is to get close to airplanes and mess around with them.”

    And this? “The airports cannot be identified for security reasons.”

    Strange. Why can’t the airports be identified?

    Harmless graffiti my ass.

  18. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Nov 29, 2015 at 7:03 pm

    Re: “The airports cannot be identified for security reasons.”

    And “A spokeswoman for easyJet said the matter was not considered to be a threat … and security of its passengers and crews is always easyJet’s highest priority.”

    JUST FOR THAT LIE ALONE, THEY SHOULD LOSE THEIR OPERATING LICENSE!

    • Champ says

      Nov 29, 2015 at 8:58 pm

      I agree, UV!!

  19. Peggy says

    Nov 29, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    This is war and our governments don’t want to admit it. You cannot fight a war with a police force. You need all armed forces to do it including army, navy, airforce and police.
    We will lose the war if we only rely on our police.

    • Daniel Triplett says

      Nov 29, 2015 at 8:59 pm

      Agreed Peggy.

      This War is too big now for a conventional solution or airstrikes. And we don’t have enough troops to invade and occupy indefinitely 57 Muslim nations. The quickest solution with THE LEAST LOSS OF ENEMY AND FRIENDLY LIFE requires nuclear weapons.

      Nuke weapons get the attention, fear, and respect of everyone real quick. This war could be over in 6 weeks, in under $10 Billion, without losing one Allied Serviceman’a life.

      We’re in World War III, like it or not. Do we want to win or lose?

  20. steve says

    Nov 30, 2015 at 11:11 am

    Do not use EASYJET . EL AL is the only safe airline……

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