Rice to reveal pre 9-11 bid to fight al-Qaida

US mational security adviser Condoleezza Rice will provide a detailed account of the Bush administration’s anti-terror actions before the 2001 attacks when she goes before the September 11 commission today.

She will not, however, offer a blow-by-blow rebuttal to former counter-terror adviser Richard Clarke’s claims that the administration, and Rice in particular, did not consider al-Qaida an urgent priority before the attacks.