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And the request that was denied was for a handful of guards, by all accounts not enough to have averted the attack.

In short, if the United States and its NATO and Arab allies had learned from the Iraq experience and implemented a full, well-supported plan for Benghazi, covering everything from technical assistance to security and staffing, we might have averted the attack and the momentum it has given to extremists.

Nevertheless, many of their 30 recommendations carried the implication that more could have been done to avert the attack.

While the F.B.I. has been praised for helping to catch one of the bombing suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Congressional Republicans have raised questions about whether the bureau missed a chance to avert the attack.

Appearing before the House of Commons, the home secretary, Alan Johnson, retracted an assertion made on Monday by a spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown that implied that Britain had passed intelligence information about Mr. Abdulmutallab to the United States that might have helped avert the attack.

The resignation of the analyst -- who monitored terrorist threats in the region for the Defense Intelligence Agency -- raised new questions on Capitol Hill about whether the Pentagon and intelligence agencies could have done more to avert the attack on the Cole, which killed 17 sailors and wounded 39 on Oct. 12.

What was needed was coöperation with other federal agencies, but for reasons both petty and obscure those agencies chose to hide vital clues from the investigators most likely to avert the attacks.

Also this week, a lawyer for victims of November's attacks said the families planned to sue the French state for failing to avert the attacks carried out by assailants known to the security services.

There are now concerns that the surviving man may be too badly injured ever to be interrogated and there are questions about whether the FBI missed opportunities to avert the attacks.

We long ago realized that if the American government had not let the Cole attack go unanswered, and if our investigation had not been so constrained, we could have undermined Al Qaeda and perhaps even averted the 9/11 attack.

Poor planning – and an early finish for the EDL rally – averted the Dewsbury attack using a nail-filled homemade firework bomb that experts fear could have led to a race war between Islamist radicals and the fragmented extreme right-wing movement.