Jihad has failed, former Libyan Islamist tells al-Qaeda

Good to see that some of the radicals aren't as crazy as others are.

AKI - Adnkronos international Terrorism: Jihad has failed, former Libyan Islamist tells al-Qaeda: "Jihad has failed, former Libyan Islamist tells al-Qaeda Tripoli, 7 Nov. (AKI) - A former leader of an armed Islamic group in Libya, Numan Bin Uthman, has written a letter to al-Qaeda second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri telling him that Jihadi groups in Arab countries have failed. 'Dear Doctor Ayman, as I told you during a meeting in Kandahar [in Afghanistan] in 2000, the experience of the Jihadi groups in Arab countries is failed and despite our appeals, the armed groups are divided and will not unite,' he said in the letter, a copy of which was published in the London based pan-Arab daily al-Hayat. The letter by Uthman, who is based in London, comes after an audio message by al-Zawahiri - an Egyptian medic - was released on Saturday. In it, al-Zawahiri announced that the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, had joined al-Qaeda. He also called for the ousting of regimes in North Africa. The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group first announced itself in 1995, vowing to topple the Libyan regime. It is the second organisation to allegedly join al-Qaeda after Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which changed its name to the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb last January. 'I ask you and whoever is behind you to"