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US Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen has called to revisit Af-Pak terror strategy, saying that US was fed up of getting its troops killed over there. Mullen stated this while addressing hundreds of students at the Naval War College in Newport. He noted that change in the Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan war strategy is vital to defeat the militants. He observed that the situation was worsening in Pakistan, adding that such people were needed to address the situation who knew the language and culture of that region and called for working in harmony with both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mullen told the audience that Yemen and Somalia were becoming new safe havens of the al-Qaeda , however, ruled out any US plans to send troops into Yemen terming it a sovereign state.
