[国际新闻] 美国撤除禁令8月起可带打火机上飞机

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美国政府决定从8月4日开始，停止施行已经两年，禁止乘客带普通打火机上飞机的政策。美国运输部认为，在乘客登机前搜索他们身上是否携带打火机，根本是浪费时间。 2001年当鞋子炸弹客芮德意图在从巴黎飞往迈阿密的班机上，用火柴引燃藏在鞋子里的炸弹後，美国政府在国会的坚持之下，终於宣布了禁带打火机上机的命令。* j4 C8 G) }# s

4 {# s3 F7 C% _0 B; c2 ]Cigarette lighter ban 'a waste of time': US
2 S& }9 h' j! m2 Z8 Z$ E) oUS authorities will no longer enforce a two-year-old ban against taking cigarette lighters on planes because searching passengers wasted time and did not improve aviation security, the New York Times reports.
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The ban on lighters was ordered by US lawmakers after a passenger, Richard Reid, tried to ignite a bomb in his shoe in 2001 on a flight from Paris to Miami.人在德国 社区8 I+ l1 K5 w) Q
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Reid, known as the "shoe bomber", had used matches to try to ignite explosives concealed in his shoe and is currently serving a life sentence for trying to blow up the transatlantic flight.
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" H) N3 A$ \6 K. nUS authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.人在德国 社区/ q2 A8 U+ K8 ~
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US Transport Security Administration assistant secretary Kip Hawley says the ban on lighters did not significantly enhance security because small batteries could be used to detonate a bomb.
9 ?' ]( V$ l/ e, v7 k; BMr Hawley says lifting the prohibition will free up security officers to spend more time looking for bombs or bomb parts.
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4 x; P- d' c+ U/ c9 \" t& E7 z"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.
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% A7 S- p& B) j; R* b; a8 J2 w! Q"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."
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  b* R/ w# O/ P- [! }+ E  t人在德国 社区The policy change is to take effect on August 4 and applies to disposable butane lighters and refillable lighters.
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# ~; r  J, v* c- l+ \+ f2 kThe New York Times says some 22,000 lighters a day are collected by security officers at airports across the United States and disposing of the confiscated lighters has cost about $US4 million a year.