Sweet-talking terrorists

Interesting post from Slashdot (not sure about its veracity, though):

...in Saudi Arabia, they had a program where when a jihadi was captured, they were given the opportunity to debate with a muslim cleric, on the justification in Isalam [sic] for external jihad (Jihad waged as a physical war of violence against infidels, as opposed to the more accepted definition of an internal war within the believer to defeat a non-believing self). The conditions of the debate were; if the jihadi wins, he goes free. If the cleric wins, the jihadi goes to prison, and when released, must join in the effort to convince other jihadis that violence is wrong, and not an acceptable part of Islam. Each and every jihadi that went through this program (in 2002, when I read about it) was converted from radicalism.