[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, m2 x; ]# @- R' P% H% K
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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6 f* S+ }% Q, [, m人在德国 社区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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) n, F; g3 i5 a( E. V% S* ?" JReid, 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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; n) `% J) J- o: Q人在德国 社区US authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.1 ]3 a; Q; Q6 @! B3 i: \. u

; S6 y- t4 C1 B* A! i$ [& ^3 e0 Z% vUS 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.
6 s1 }6 {  u8 q+ rMr Hawley says lifting the prohibition will free up security officers to spend more time looking for bombs or bomb parts.
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( y2 L7 }/ x* d# i$ ~"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said./ ^1 V  u2 w+ l% d1 E
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"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."
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* {2 z3 @. R6 M0 v# v  e0 }rs238848.rs.hosteurope.deThe policy change is to take effect on August 4 and applies to disposable butane lighters and refillable lighters.% @" K) C1 H& n9 t) Z  g, o
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The 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.