it was the second intifada palestinian uprising and already two of sheaffer teenage cousins had been killed by israeli soldiers while her brother was serving eighteen years in prison for his part in a suicide mission well i am a mother and i love my life but i wanted to do it because israel is destroyed or receivers i want to destroy their arrogance female suicide bombing is relatively new in the palestinian world. the twenty eight year old divorced paramedic from ramallah became the first woman to blow herself up in jerusalem in two thousand and two ten more women have since followed in a footsteps one of them when their committed suicide and. she saw her fiance being killed in front of their eyes so she was really pushed to their. point that she wanted to end her life experts agree that the reasons or drive a woman to become a suicide bomber are complex is anger and bitterness towards the israeli occupation forces is also the patriarchal nature of palestinian society according to and not to bercow has written several books on the subject here woman suspected of sleeping with a man

we have to do to fight against these invasions sheaffer says her reasons were both political and personal she was fed up with the bombs falling around her and ashamed that after just two years of marriage her husband had run off with another woman and life had simply become too much the plan was simple she thought was going to tend to be pregnant and hide this if we found of explosives and get me a maternity dress she was going to come here to natanya an israeli town not far from of home and blow herself up among israelis suicide bombing is the kind of attack that doesn't between. all women there is no excuse absolutely no excuse at all but her plan was foiled by a palestinian informant who tipped off the israeli army chief or was sentenced and spent six years behind bars now back at home she says she regrets it and devotes her time to telling her story to both israelis and palestinians in the hope that both sides can come to greater understand the other i think of the years later my daughter asked me who i was going to leave her with and i said with grandma i didn't understand at the tim

i spoke with anthony sheaffer about how the team in afghanistan could be shored up. are they going to have to shuttle guys in from other s.e.a.l. units? >> first off, they may have to degrade the mission in iraq and move more to afghanistan. the problem is things in iraq have not been as stable as people would like them to be. therefore, you're degrading that mission. the more likely scenario is they'll move one of the stand-by units and move them in ahead of schedule. >> but sheaffer and others say that carries significant risks in missions that are as dangerous as these. risks of mistakes and even possibly burnout, wolf. >> there's s.e.a.l. team 6. how many units are there? >> there's 2,500 s.e.a.l.s overa overall. even at full strength, this is a finite group of guys with a rot of stress. if they have to accelerate the deployment of now some who are in the rear coming up to the front, they could get burned out. it's a dangerous situation. >> our heart goes out to the families, the surviving family members of these s.e.a.l.s and the other u.s. troops killed in that