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For some reason the search function isn't working for me at the moment, so I'm sure this has been brought up before, but is there any logical way for the 9/11 attacks to be prevented?

One month out all of the hijackers are in the United States and Bush has been given the memo stating that bin Laden intended to attack the US. Zacarias Moussaoui would raise concern in regard to his intentions while at flight school shortly after, to the point that he is actually arrested on August 16 (on immigration charges). On the 18th the FBI requests a search warrent to look at his computer, while a memo is sent from a field agent of the FBI to Washington to Moussaoui plans to carry out a terrorist attack.

In the end, the warrent request was denied and the memo was never read. There are more factors involved then this of course, among them the lack of cooperation between the CIA and the FBI. However, would changing those two events be enough to prevent the attacks? That is, if the warrent were obtained and/or the memo were read, would there be enough time from August 20th (the day the warrent was denied) to successfullly prevent the attack? What other events could lead to the prevention of 9/11? Any imput would be great, as I'm trying to work on a TL involving this.
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