it is a daily frustration for a single mother. she describes getting stuck after dark trying to make it home last month to her 5-year-old son. i had to walk in the street for half-an-hour looking for a cab. i was harassed by every single car. most cars pass by harassing me because it was late at night and i was walking along. kept calling my brother, his phone was off to come pick me up and i was crying in the streets. i m a grown woman, 32-year-old woman, a mother and i was crying like a kid on the street because i couldn t find someone to pick me up to take me back home. reporter: so she and dozens of other women decided it was time to take the wheel. she and other women with international licenses are also offering driving lessons in saudi s rural areas. manal took this video of giving her first lesson. but this is only a small step on a long road. women still do not have the right to vote in saudi arabia.
so this is an issue that is dividing the country, not just by sex by by belief and by custom. do we believe that this is actually going to lead to other rights for women, that they ll be able to gain rights ondriving? well, with the women that i ve toukd to, this is very clear. they feel that the right to drive is a very small thing. they still want the right to vote, they want to be able to travel freely, to open a bank account, without having to ask their husbands or male guardians. so for a lot of women this is just a first step. but as you can see with manal s example, it is a very, very difficult uphill battle just for the right to drive. atika shubert, thank you so much for that excellent report. as we just reported a few minutes ago, a u.s. official is telling cnn that osama bin laden considered seeking a deal with pakistan to protect al qaeda leaders and al qaeda would refrain from attacking pakistan