[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。: o: [2 d  U" K& w/ b- L3 C. X

7 w5 d$ D7 G; \Cigarette lighter ban 'a waste of time': US
/ F+ S2 q+ u) |3 JUS 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.: K7 o& H) R3 \# Z' y( Y( Z

  G6 r8 W/ v4 ^% I" ]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.de7 `* Q! ]8 K/ I( r7 w6 u2 s
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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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) A7 L, u0 u! ]US authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.rs238848.rs.hosteurope.de2 U2 M/ o5 S) H+ W* s, g$ R* d! p

4 `% A  B& q7 t1 o4 c# q* n, JUS 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.
' r- U2 I' @! h. T( q2 T* ~& XMr Hawley says lifting the prohibition will free up security officers to spend more time looking for bombs or bomb parts.8 B5 _0 ^6 W( U( F+ j
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"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.; \" R: a- z7 L8 C

9 j& w  {( L8 w3 H"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."* @; n* T0 Y* c; b2 m

% \1 m3 Y  d( z. g人在德国 社区The policy change is to take effect on August 4 and applies to disposable butane lighters and refillable lighters.人在德国 社区7 N  B% p( {" h. i# T( K7 v  Q- ^
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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.