[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。* e: Q1 _9 m& o: z; H

3 S# W2 J5 |, c8 j5 D" l* U* NCigarette lighter ban 'a waste of time': US
6 w7 N8 q1 A) O8 Y; b& wUS 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.rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de3 S6 P! `# Y! E- y/ J' k6 v" W
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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.( L+ W) }2 W% L0 R, S( A. b, R
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US authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.
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9 O  T# K2 ~7 D4 D9 X, m) r+ n人在德国 社区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.
7 `' x! h7 I3 K9 f, d4 t, ~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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/ Y, }# \, s5 @8 a"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.
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"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."人在德国 社区+ D8 t- y  S4 K) W, n
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The policy change is to take effect on August 4 and applies to disposable butane lighters and refillable lighters.
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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.