want to restrict the confrontation of the Muslim nation against them and their agents, to peaceful means only". (1)

I say: If they have replaced Jihad and fighting with peaceful means, then why do they mention that fighting is one of the solutions? They would have surely said "we and America have agreed to restrict the solutions to be only through peaceful means"!

Then in the same interview he was asked, "But there are armed opposition and Jihadi operations. So what is your stance towards that?"

So Dr. Ayman replied, "We bless every Jihadi operation against Zionism and against the Americanized army which protects their borders and against the criminals belonging to the interior and against the American interests". (2)

So if he has replaced Jihad with pacifism he would have advised them to use peaceful means instead of him blessing their Jihadi and combat actions!

Towards the end of the tape "Lessons on the past and hopes for the future" which was released by As-Sahab Media Foundation, it contained a filmed operation of Ansar Baytul Maqdis against the Egyptian regime. So where is the faith in peaceful means?!

Indeed Sheikh Abu Mus'ab Abdul Wadood, the leader of Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghrib has supported the Libyan revolution in his speech "Congratulating the victory of the descendants of Umar Al Mukhtar" despite it not being a peaceful revolution, but instead an armed one! So how would he support it while Al Qaida has abandoned Jihad and fighting, and has replaced it with peaceful methodology as claimed by Adnani?!

And secondly: Is merely the belief in peaceful means a sign of deviance?!

That is, has everybody who has endorsed and supported these peaceful revolutions become deviated?! If it is said yes, then it would necessarily mean that all of these whose statements we will be quoting now are deviated!

Sheikh Usama in his last speech which was released under the title "Speech of the martyr of Islam - as we consider him- to his Muslim nation", he said as follows:

"My Muslim nation, we are watching with you this great historical incident ... . The Ummah has been for a long time looking forward towards victory whose glad tidings have appeared from the east, and then suddenly the sun of revolution arose from the west and illuminated the revolution from Tunisia. And the nation liked to accompany it, and the faces of the people became bright, and the throats of the rulers got chocked, while the Jews got terrified with the approach of the promises. And