It might not be possible for the US Air Trans Assoc. to petition the government for a large tax refund, due to the enemy attacks. But it would certainly provide them with a chance to reduce their losses from this week and next...
Off the specific topic, but depending on what else happens to, or in Afghanistan or Iraq (what other countries' involvement is being kept confidential?), maybe that government(s) can be forced by some sort of world court or World Bank (freezes assets) to provide cash to the US airlines, although the victims and their families' should receive money first. It is also sad that the backlash from this will frighten or injure many innocent people in many countries. The guilty parties never considered this reality or cared about the aftermath while they plotted mass murder.
Maybe our constitution etc can finally be changed to allow assasination, whether the rest of the world likes this or not.
[ 14 September 2001: Message edited by: Ignition Override ]