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Date: 2008-09
“We can hunt down and kill extremists as they cross over the border from Pakistan.
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But until we … eliminate the safe havens from which they operate, the enemy will only keep coming.”
Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently remarked






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