National Post readers eager for good news in the war against terrorism, rejoice. On the pages that follow, authors Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank outline a stunning phenomenon: In the prisons of Cairo and the mosques of London, on the blogosphere and the airwaves of Arabic cable TV channels, militant jihadis are turning away from al-Qaeda's nihilistic agenda. Personal attacks against Osama bin Laden, once taboo, are now common in jihadi circles...

"Encoded in the DNA of apocalyptic jihadist groups like al Qaeda are the seeds of their own long-term destruction," conclude Bergen and Cruickshank. "Their victims are often Muslim civilians; they don't offer a positive vision of the future; [and] they keep expanding their list of enemies." LINK