Sounds like a hudna to me...
The RoPers were laughing their a$$es off at this on their forums a while back.
Its widely reported and recognized in their circles that these “new suggestions” Sayyid Imam al-Sharif were and his collective recent writings, including the book referred to in the article above (”Rationalizations on Jihad...”) were all produced from his jail cell under duress!
While its true, he has ideological differences with the likes of Zawahiri, its because he supports the muslim brotherhood model for overthrow over kuffarocracy with sharia.
Their are still devoted to the islamic obligations of territorial expansion and defeat of the kuffar.