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However, Abdel-Ghaffar could also use his knowledge of the Brotherhood and its top leaders to reach some sort of a reconciliation deal with the group. Abdel-Ghaffar supported an initiative with armed Islamist organizations, aimed at convincing them to renounce their use of violence in the late 1990s. He took part in brokering an unofficial truce between Mubarak’s government and al-Jama’a al-Islamiya, the Islamist group behind the assassination of former president Anwar Sadat, and the massacre of sixty-two people, mostly tourists, in Luxor.