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

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

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

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

"There is no manhunt," the authorised was quoted as saying. "There is no astir case. They were looked at, but it washed out," he was quoted as saying, downplaying a report 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 comment on the cable, the Post said.

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

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

The men were scheduled to fly to Washington on Sept 10, 2001, on the form that was hijacked the incoming period and flown into the Pentagon. Instead, they flew to London 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 about the Sept 11 attacks, the Post said .

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

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

Mansoori, from the United Semite Emirates, lived in Long Beach, Calif. in Sept 2001, the Post said.

(Reporting by JoAnne Allen, editing by Christopher Wilson)

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