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Supporters of sanctions point to the example of South Africa. Economic sanctions against that country helped end the practice of apartheid (a policy of racial segregation and political and economic discrimination) and contributed to the decision by then-leader F.W. de Klerk to concede power to Nelson Mandela in 1994. U.S. Prepares for Attacks The federal government has taken several recent steps to coordinate its responses to terrorism. Twenty different agencies are involved in counterterrorism …

…and warn that U.S. citizens may be increasingly targeted by terrorists at home and abroad. "I don't think the United States understands what it's in for," says David Anderson, a senior lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London who has studied the Islamic fundamentalist groups associated with bin Laden. "This will be a long, perhaps never ending, attritional war. Pandora's box has been opened, and it won't be closed again."