[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。8 C9 j% ^; c, s$ T
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Cigarette lighter ban 'a waste of time': US- M3 [( h% U9 q( u
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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- i' r$ v0 S: a6 t6 ?* ?4 t) }rs238848.rs.hosteurope.deThe 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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& @9 v4 w; Z% bReid, 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.rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de0 ~. ~9 M' [) V6 g

8 r3 E4 I: C! r7 T: B+ _3 Vrs238848.rs.hosteurope.deUS 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.
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( _. m) ?/ _  R, Y+ H4 B' `; }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.rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de9 [7 A5 {5 f  Y, U- s$ l' P
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"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."
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, ?2 C: [' ~" }' F* e  e/ NThe policy change is to take effect on August 4 and applies to disposable butane lighters and refillable lighters.
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. b- r8 P8 |, t2 J( D0 b  \rs238848.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.