The events of September 11th had monetary consequences for all types of industries, not least translation and localization. New requests for help in Pashto, Uzbek, Farsi and Arabic came in to a number of companies and people in the language trades once again remembered that there is something called the Defense Language Institute in the US. While literally millions of dollars have been spent by translation and localization vendors trying unsuccessfully to get the mainstream media to cover the language and localization trades, the events of September 11th changed the whole situation.