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President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has admitted that he ordered the Egyptian air force to film 2013 protests against his late predecessor, Mohammed Morsi, which were used to justify a military coup led by Sisi. The now-president, a former army general who was appointed defence minister by Morsi in 2012, said in a press conference on Monday that he was responsible for ordering military planes to film video of the protests. “I was monitoring this and I [ordered] planes to fly over and film all the squares in Egypt, not just in Cairo and Alexandria, everywhere,” the Egyptian president said. Mohammed …