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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 5:42 pm
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Originally Posted by TheRoadie
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"An easyJet flight was delayed for two hours following a security alert when a passenger was spotted writing in Arabic.

A pupil on the flight from Amsterdam to Newcastle started having a panic attack when the man, a masters student in Iranian studies, was seen writing in his notebook.

The pupil started kicking on the seats in front before getting up and running to the back of the plane, according to The Chronicle ."

In what universe is this kid EVER going to be safe to fly? *HE* is the security risk, not a fellow passenger.
While Farsi is generally written mostly using the Arabic alphabet, was the Iranian studies' student really writing in Arabic or was he really writing Persian?
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