After changing ideology :

Libya releases 88 Jihadists

LIBYA: Libyan authorities released on Thursday 88 ex-members of radical Jihadist groups that had connections with al-Qaida, pan-Arab al-Jazeera TV reported.

The report said that 45 people belonging to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) along with 43 belonging to other Jihadist groups have been released from abu Slim prison in Tripoli after the dialogue Gaddafi Foundation held with them for long time succeeded to make a shift in their radical ideology.

Gaddafi Foundation which is headed by the son of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi Seiful-Islam has succeeded to set 100 Islamists free since it started dialogue with the Jihadist groups over their ideology and got them convinced with reconsidering it.

LIFG was secretly formed by Libyans who had fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the early 1990s. The group started an armed campaign against Gaddafi's regime in 1995 accusing it of being an anti-Islam regime.

In November 2007 al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahiri said the group joined al-Qaida. CAIRO, Friday, Xinhua