[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。
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Cigarette lighter ban 'a waste of time': US
( Z' W- c! L4 AUS 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.; m* I. n6 s& z) e
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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.
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' X; Y2 B- x. }& O# GReid, 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.人在德国 社区4 z9 g" Q  b3 B

( ^; s& Y9 a6 f: NUS authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.
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; _% H  s" \$ \3 q* l: @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.$ |+ ~: s! h* o% J5 d; {" b
Mr Hawley says lifting the prohibition will free up security officers to spend more time looking for bombs or bomb parts.
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* @& S3 E3 o0 f* c1 c6 mrs238848.rs.hosteurope.de"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.# c! d+ `' {8 w: p
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"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."
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The policy change is to take effect on August 4 and applies to disposable butane lighters and refillable lighters.人在德国 社区  n; `9 u2 X9 Z) P$ c

( v; Y' T/ c# X; L: u人在德国 社区The 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.