[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
* v) D4 C( ^9 z" W) |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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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.1 |# W# F. O; T! d
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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.rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de9 ^  H0 J1 f6 v1 \! G: P" [4 |# A
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US authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.
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4 ~/ E/ |( p" y# u8 J( \/ O& q2 p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.; g/ V. E/ Y; d7 P1 e9 @3 U, D5 Y
Mr Hawley says lifting the prohibition will free up security officers to spend more time looking for bombs or bomb parts.  x4 }+ @2 F* R1 ^: x  W9 [  v

$ ?% ^( b" `$ N1 B: `- ~"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.4 W* i% }3 g5 P

8 w( H6 h; C/ v0 |1 h"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that.". s9 E8 f0 U: X! d. ^
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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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/ f+ e0 Y: y4 p4 O; A# T! T- ^rs238848.rs.hosteurope.deThe 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.