Montasser al- Zayyat, the lawyer of the Jamā‘āt al-Islāmīyah was interviewed by al-Midan, Asharq al-Awsat and al-Hayat. In the statements he gave to the three papers he commented on the initiative denouncing violence, the government’s reaction towards it, the differences between the Jamā‘āt al-Islāmīyah and the Jihād groups, the relationship between Ayman al-Zawahari and Usama Ben Laden and his failure in the elections of the Bar Association.