[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。/ |( y$ R+ H4 \# R6 t! S  i

$ `1 w6 W* y: ?3 ?* F( f) C( CCigarette lighter ban 'a waste of time': US
2 Z; X& P; K8 B8 Z+ K9 w2 e! 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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8 l8 {6 j- H( s' h! O' oThe 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.( H  Y$ I: e. j8 I3 g  Z

6 o% m9 h% K: e5 p  ZReid, 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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US authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.
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6 u7 Y! b( i* q0 i3 q  X& A, hUS 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.3 P' H/ S( `9 t5 `( W
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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) B1 m) K( ^4 I: A5 prs238848.rs.hosteurope.de"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.$ n# {( k# y8 _4 B( z
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"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."
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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.