[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': USrs238848.rs.hosteurope.de# f6 r6 v& m1 i3 O; y  M: _
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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$ ^$ E6 M* L  T* y5 |1 F4 S8 }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.
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7 m" F# X" Z- H$ a% IUS authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.人在德国 社区! c, Q3 C& {- M: e" k9 K  g
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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.9 h% }8 L, c. p4 w! H1 s* R: t3 ]
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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2 m9 g1 j  D. u. T"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.! V- [) i8 j) ?4 o/ E5 K+ o

- Q( O- k( r$ }"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."
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; k  T( y& r( `8 R; B: RThe policy change is to take effect on August 4 and applies to disposable butane lighters and refillable lighters.
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/ ?2 s- V0 h, |0 yThe 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.