Bush says he had no 9/11 warning

The president was talking after a security memo presented to him a month before 9/11 had been made public.

The document referred to al-Qaeda activity in the United States and mentioned possible aircraft hijackings.

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Had he received a specific warning of an attack, he would "have moved mountains" to prevent it, Mr Bush said.

"I am satisfied that I never saw any intelligence that indicated there was going to be an attack on America - at a time and a place, an attack," Mr Bush said on Sunday.

Mr Bush had received the briefing, entitled "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States", on 6 August 2001.

It came to light during last Thursday's testimony from US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to a commission investigating the 9/11 attacks.

"It said Osama bin Laden had designs on America. Well, I knew that," Mr Bush commented.

The White House had always maintained that it had no specific information that al-Qaeda was planning to attack within the United States.