US intelligence officials have finished reviewing 28 classified pages of the official report on the September 11 attacks on the US and they show no evidence of Saudi complicity, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Friday.

"It will confirm what we have been saying for quite some time," Earnest told reporter during a daily White House briefing.

The 28 pages that will be sent to the US Congress on Friday contain no new evidence that Saudi Arabia played a role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Earnest said.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister welcomed the release of a long-classified section of the official report on the Sept. 11 attacks that discussed potential links between some of the hijackers and Saudi Arabia.

"The matter is now finished," Adel Al Jubeir told a news conference in Washington. Asked whether the report exonerated the kingdom, he said: "Absolutely."

The 28 pages of the report on the 2002 investigation focus on potential Saudi links to the 2001 aircraft attacks on the US, in which nearly 3,000 people died.

They were issued by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on Friday after years of wrangling in Washington between Congress and different administrations, Republicans and Democrats, and urging by families of those killed.-Reuters