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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A classified U.S. writing obtained by the anti-secrecy assemble WikiLeaks shows threesome previously covert participants in the Sept 11, 2001 plot, The pedagogue Post reportable on Tuesday.

The threesome Arab men arrived in the United States on August 15, 2001, conducted surveillance of targets and mitt the land on the eve of the Sept 11 attacks, according to the leaked U.S. diplomatic cable.

The threesome men "visited the World Trade Center, the Statue of Liberty, the White House, and different areas in Virginia" before flying on to Los Angeles, according to the leaked document.

A U.S. official, speech on the information of anonymity, said the threesome Qataris were "looked at" within life of the attacks and that investigators over they could not be charged, The pedagogue Post reported.

"There is no manhunt," the authorised was quoted as saying. "There is no active case. They were looked at, but it washed out," he was quoted as saying, downplaying a inform by Britain's The Daily Telegraph, which said the FBI has launched a manhunt for the previously uncharted aggroup of men suspected to be conception of the attacks.

The CIA and the FBI declined to interpret on the cable, the Post said.

The inform said the threesome Qataris were conception of a 2002 FBI itemize of grouping whom polity desired to discourse most the Sept 11 attacks.

After the men mitt the East Coast, they stayed at a hotel near the Los Angeles airport. Hotel staff later told investigators the men had "pilot-type" uniforms and computer printouts organisation airman names, airlines, grace drawing and grace times, the telegram said.

The men were regular to fly to pedagogue on Sept 10, 2001, on the form that was hijacked the incoming period and flown into the Pentagon. Instead, they flew to author and then on to peninsula on Sept 13, according to the report.

The threesome Qataris were conception of a 2002 FBI itemize of grouping whom polity desired to discourse most the Sept 11 attacks, the Post said .

The leaked telegram was dispatched on Feb 11, 2010, from the U.S. Embassy in Doha, peninsula to different agencies in Washington, recommending that a man identified as Mohamed al-Mansoori be added to a government watch list, the Post.

"He is suspected of aiding grouping who entered the U.S. before the attacks to carry surveillance of possible targets and providing other hold to the hijackers," the telegram said.

Mansoori, from the United Arab Emirates, lived in Long Beach, California in Sept 2001, the Post said.

(Reporting by JoAnne Allen, redaction by Christopher Wilson)

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