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(White House: Major Garrett) President Obama's speech outlining his plan for downgrading the war on terror reviewed; details given about his defense of drone strikes, the targeting of US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki and Obama’s push to close the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba. [At the National Defense University, OBAMA – says drone strikes have saved lives; speaks against holding people with no charge on land that is not part of our country.] Republican opposition to closing Guantanamo noted.
(Studio: Scott Pelley) The hunger strike by prisoners at Guantanamo noted.
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(Islamabad: Elizabeth Palmer) Pakistani resentment toward US drone strikes featured; details given about the court ruling that the strikes illegal and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s hope to improve relations with the US; scenes shown of pieces of missiles fired from drones, a crowd chanting against the US; photo shown of a Pakistani child who died after being hit by shrapnel. [Human rights lawyer Shahzad AKBAR- comments on the ruling allowing Pakistan’s’ government to shoot down the drones.]
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(London: Mark Phillips) The investigation into yesterday’s terror attack in London, where British soldier Lee Rigby was hacked to death, reviewed; video of attacker Michael Adebolajo’s rant shown; details given about Adebolajo’s conversion to Islam and the role of radical cleric Anjem Choudary in shaping his anti-Western views. [CHOUDARY – says there are so many people being killed by drones and tortured.]
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(Grapevine, Texas: Manuel Bojorquez) The policy shift by the Boy Scouts of America with a vote to end the ban on gay members examined; scenes shown of a protest outside the national council meeting in Grapevine, Texas. [Scout leader John STEMBERGER- says it will devastate the Boy Scouts legally, financially & socially and 200-400,000 young people will leave the program.] [Openly gay Scout Pascal TESSIER- wonders why you would go after people who aren’t doing anything wrong.] The decision to leave the ban on gay leaders in place noted.
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(Oklahoma City: Vinita Nair) The recovery of teacher Jennifer Doan, who was injured in the collapse of Plaza Towers Elementary School, featured; photo shown of her taking her first steps since the disaster. [DOAN – comments on her students, children & teaching.]
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(Bangladesh: Holly Williams) An undercover look inside Bangladesh clothing factories continued; scenes shown of workers spraying garments with toxic chemicals that can cause nerve damage; details given about the killing of Aminul Islam, a labor activist who angered factory bosses by encouraging workers to form unions and fight for better conditions; photo shown of Islam’s body. [Collapse survivor Tahmina Akhter SADIA {through reporter's translation} – says the supervisor slapped her and forced her to go into the building.]
(Studio: Scott Pelley; London: Holly Williams) The rejection by US retailers of an agreement by European retailers to use their own money to make Bangladeshi factories safer discussed.
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(Norman, Oklahoma: Elaine Quijano) The story of Shayla Taylor, a mother who was in labor at Moore Medical Center in Oklahoma when the tornado hit, presented. [TAYLOR – recounts what happened when the wall blew off.]
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