[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( Q5 H% |1 e2 S, D
US 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.
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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., F0 m0 I: I- O& p9 I8 v( ~& j, h

' |( J2 M5 i4 R& ^0 E, K8 O+ j人在德国 社区US authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.7 Z$ M$ q! R2 p# b" C2 z

# E  }+ k: @2 mUS 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.
4 D, [  T. @% ?8 V' VMr Hawley says lifting the prohibition will free up security officers to spend more time looking for bombs or bomb parts.
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"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de) f) t$ f* q/ Z8 S& g

" Z) ~" Q* ]( m3 l' Z% D! a, brs238848.rs.hosteurope.de"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."8 h& Z; x) I6 {2 c

  C' I" w2 U7 V  M  I, n& |3 Q+ g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.8 G! b5 ^, S6 I+ h

# p+ _$ |% x2 g& J" m, H5 QThe 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.