[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。/ |( _6 q+ {; ]4 t4 `
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Cigarette lighter ban 'a waste of time': US人在德国 社区1 C; b: {0 @- v5 E) z  r
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 `6 Q7 F3 ~( N2 i# ?8 A. JThe 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: i' T0 `3 e, o( }
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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.5 [. E  Z2 L/ `! [6 I% S" k* w

1 @/ g5 m4 p( j7 Y; j& L' Hrs238848.rs.hosteurope.deUS authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.
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9 d. s' I9 A2 Z* h0 tUS 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.7 y- I6 a9 m$ d0 @* s
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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. b8 c6 a) U! w1 `* g人在德国 社区"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.
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5 y" w2 ?$ u6 H- K! Q( ^$ C1 G"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- b: Q4 g, b; ^' `& i4 S% Q

* J1 V- |- K1 vrs238848.rs.hosteurope.deThe 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.