Now don't think in anyway shape or form I support or condone anything Al Qaeda does.

That being said, cowards? How do you figure? He's behind a camera because that's his job. Bush does the same thing, you don't see him in Iraq leading the troops do you? All you see is him on camera making threats. So by your definition he should be a coward too. They run and hide because that's the intelligent way for them to run a war like this. You may recall that we did the same thing in the revolutionary war. The British thought we were cowards but we wouldn't have a country if we had fought their way.