[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': US3 S' L- g8 k; U; q' Y; b3 E
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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$ G8 m. I  K- b' u; TThe 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.# b: K7 C* [6 k4 {/ M4 W
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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.! `1 r6 m2 T6 V) S, G- u

# V( f# k% b7 G& C3 c+ Z" QUS authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.
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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.
* X: k. H, I0 _% t* v" `8 `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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% W+ W  c& k. Trs238848.rs.hosteurope.de"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.' E( H" P! Q5 o
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"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."
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, Q3 v- U& t0 @3 J- ~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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$ D3 X, Y# {1 t  u2 h' P' X( vThe 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.