US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) claimed he warned about al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden a year before the September 11, 2001, attacks, asserting that "he wanted to take little credit". He insisted that he had predicted the 9/11 attacks and could have stopped the carnage if anyone had heeded his warnings.

Trump also said that he had asked authorities to keep track of Osama bin Laden a year before the 9/11 attacks, and asserted that the "fake news would never let me get away with that statement unless it was true".

"Please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year before he blew up the World Trade Centre. And I said, 'You got to watch Osama bin Laden'," he said. "But I said one year before that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden and I didn't like it. And

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