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Leaked Tape Claims To Show Egypt's Sisi Saying He Can See The Future

Memes and Freud jokes abound after an unverified tape claims to show Sisi saying he dreamt he would be president.

by Sheera Frenkel

BuzzFeed News World Correspondent

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by Miriam Berger

BuzzFeed Contributor

Posted on December 12, 2013, 9:03 pm

The Internet is abuzz after a bizarre and unverified recording of Egyptian General Abdel El Fattah El Sisi saying he can foresee the future in his dreams — including that he will one day become president — was leaked on Wednesday.

The recording, which has not been verified by any official source, was supposedly leaked from off-the-record comments Sisi gave during an official interview with the Egyptian daily newspaper, Al-Masry Al-Youm, in October. Rumors over the tape's source abounded: some claimed it was false and a ploy, perhaps by the Muslim Brotherhood, to discredit Sisi; others speculated the government had orchestrated the leak to test public opinion of a Sisi presidency.

The claims, whether true or not, are outlandish. The speaker claims he can foresee future events through dreams and described three that allegedly allude to Sisi's predestined presidency: 35 years ago he dreamed that he was holding a sword with the words, "There is no God but Allah," while wearing an Omega watch adorned with a big green star. In another dream, he met the late President Anwar el-Sadat who told him he would be president. In a third unconscious incident, a voice proclaimed, "We will grant you what no one has had before."