On the Fugitive Egyptian pilot

Monaster El-Zayat lawyer of the Islamic groups in Egypt asserted that he met the Egyptian pilot Hamdi Hanafi Taha twice in year 1987 and 1988.

El-Zayat said told ArabicNews.com that he was surprised when Hamdi came to salute him in the airplane heading to London and invited him to lunch in London where they discussed a lot of religious affairs.

El-Zayat added that "Hamidi is a very religious person to the extent that he refuses serving alcohol on his airplane during the Islamic religious occasions such as Ramadan month in addition to his refusal to drink alcohol," clarifying that "pilot Hanafi has nothing to do with the extreme Islamic organizations whether inside or outside Egypt and that he was never known as his belonging to this extreme groups."