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U.S. Expects To Lift Laptop Ban Soon For Four Remaining Airports

July 11, 2017
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The United States expects to lift the laptop ban soon for the four remaining foreign airports that are still impacted by the electronics restriction.

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On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security said if security measures are increased at those specific airports in the next coming days to weeks, the laptop restriction will be removed.

Back in March, the U. S. banned electronic devices bigger than a smartphone from the cabin on flights departing from 10 airports in North Africa and the Middle East.

Four airports remain under a ban for electronics, including carry-on laptops, on US-bound flights, imposed amid fears that Islamic State is developing a bomb concealed in personal electronics, officials said Tuesday.

The ban remains in place for Saudi Arabia’s two main international airports, in Riyadh and Jeddah, as well as Egypt’s Cairo International and Morocco’s Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport, the Department of Homeland Security said.

Six other countries across the Middle East have been removed from the ban, originally put in place on March 21, after improving security procedures.

The ban requires travelers to pack all personal electronic devices larger than cellphones in luggage stored in the aircraft’s baggage compartment.

The move came after intelligence officials learned of efforts by the Islamic State group to fashion a bomb into consumer electronics.

The original ban was focused on airports and airlines in the Middle East and North Africa.

But last month, DHS issued directives to 180 carriers around the world flying into the United States mandating improvements in security procedures, especially physical and technological screening of baggage and electronics.

The directives included pressure to install explosive-detecting scanners within weeks, as well as adding more bomb-sniffing dogs.

“I am concerned that we are seeing renewed interest on the part of terrorist groups to go after the aviation sector — from bombing aircraft to attacking airports on the ground, as we saw in Brussels and Istanbul,” said Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

Three airlines, Royal Air Maroc, Egypt Air and Saudia, are still affected by the ban.

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