Moore’s anti-Bush film opens to cheers

CHEERED by supporters, film-maker Michael Moore has premiered his controversial documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, before a US audience.

The two-hour film depicts US President George W Bush as lazy and oblivious to warnings in the summer of 2001 that al-Qaida was poised to strike. It also accuses the administration of manipulating the September 11 attacks and fanning terrorism fears to win support for the Iraq war.

Dozens of fans greeted Mr Moore outside the theatre in Washington where the film was screened before a mostly Democratic audience.