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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/01/AR2011020106379.html
Leaked Cable Tells of 3 Undisclosed Members of 9/11 Plot
(Washington Post) Peter Finn and Julie Tate - A newly released U.S. diplomatic cable discloses the existence of previously undisclosed participants in the Sep. 11, 2001, plot: a group of Qatari men who conducted surveillance of targets in New York and the Washington area before leaving the U.S. on the eve of the attacks. The cable, sent on Feb. 11, 2010, from the U.S. Embassy in Doha, Qatar, and made public by WikiLeaks, recommended that Mohamed al-Mansoori from the United Arab Emirates, who lived in Long Beach, Calif., in Sep. 2001, be added to a government watch list as a threat to civil aviation in the U.S. and abroad. Mansoori assisted the three Qataris - identified as Meshal Alhajri, Fahad Abdulla and Ali Alfehaid - while they were in the U.S.