[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' K; C/ ], C1 c; Z
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.( W, W/ H' ^; T

6 w; k8 G; d' Vwww.csuchen.deThe 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.) |2 ]8 U( b5 Z4 @1 e
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US authorities have never tried to ban matches from flights.人在德国 社区9 Y% V. w+ \# y, V: W
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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.
0 P# W: Y1 M  n, r# U' w( aMr Hawley says lifting the prohibition will free up security officers to spend more time looking for bombs or bomb parts.www.csuchen.de4 C7 v- e9 t6 o. Z  {+ V" w; f

6 A, u! M5 `/ z% O6 A0 B3 q0 t. ^# i人在德国 社区"The number one threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security check point," he said.0 K% S( ]6 |* ^" n% _
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"We don't want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that."# D) L* q$ F: G; I' w: H$ E' j5 g

: f2 X% C, \. k% O( Swww.csuchen.deThe policy change is to take effect on August 4 and applies to disposable butane lighters and refillable lighters.
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) S0 n  i; F" xThe 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.