Eengr, You have almost read my mind in your last posting.
What I was, and am about to say/ask is: What will the new security measures entail now? Confiscation of lighters, matches and cigarettes before boarding?
That has happened to me at one or two African airports. One security officer even confiscated all my spare camera batteries. The irony of it was, he let me keep the batteries that were in the camera. That really had me muttering a bunch of words stringed together in long sentences that I dare not repeat here.
Has that happened to anybody in any of the european ir US airports?