[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。人在德国 社区. r" l  ]% y3 j. @7 n/ H8 `  Y
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Cigarette lighter ban 'a waste of time': US
( c5 N: q4 O2 o+ P' v: u7 v7 ~8 N7 Trs238848.rs.hosteurope.deUS 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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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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% d9 H; L" P0 I+ ors238848.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.- @# U; m( S0 X' d
Mr Hawley says lifting the prohibition will free up security officers to spend more time looking for bombs or bomb parts.: ?0 ?7 k0 m: H6 n: w; u; S* v

$ z* E' t" O+ s, t5 m+ Z"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.9 J2 r! g9 r3 A0 s" X
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"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de5 L& a6 C/ `5 c

$ }2 w1 }  t9 k- l3 \2 B" A: cThe policy change is to take effect on August 4 and applies to disposable butane lighters and refillable lighters.5 c2 k# }) D8 Q1 [2 ^2 l: {, `: S7 V

6 [- S: J! q- C, TThe 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.