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| Ayat al-Akhras was raised, along with four brothers and five sisters, in the Deheishe Refugee Camp near Bethlehem, on the West Bank. A straight-A student, she hoped to attend college and become a journalist. Ayat was engaged to a Palestinian named Shadi with plans to wed in the summer of 2002. But she joined (or was recruited into) a fairly secular terrorist group called the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. Her hopes and dreams would never come to pass -- she had become a suicide bomber and would die first, taking others with her. Before her mission, Ayat made a video in which she lashed out at the regimes and militaries of Muslim nations everywhere: "I say to the Arab rulers, enough sleeping and failing to fulfill your duty, and watching as Palestine girls do the fighting.” |
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