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Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not elaborate on the specific steps taken in response to a wave of attacks that made June the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Iraq since 2008. But he told reporters shortly before landing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that U.S. and Iraqi operations as well as actions by Iraqi political leaders appear to have been successful at stemming the attacks for now. "We've done this. The Iraqi security forces have done it. The political leadership has addressed it. And so you've seen in the last two to three weeks a dramatic reduction in that (violence)," Mullen said. "I'm still in the wait-and-see mode to see whether or not this can be sustained." Fourteen U.S. service members were killed in hostile incidents in June, with most of the deaths attributed by U.S. officials to rocket attacks by Shi'ite militias armed by Iran. New U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, on a trip to Baghdad on July 11, said the United States would take unilateral action if necessary to deal with the threat to American troops in Iraq from Shi'ite militias armed by Iran. Mullen declined to say whether the United States had taken any such action. DRAWDOWN DEADLINE Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's shaky coalition government has yet to decide whether it will ask the United States to keep some of the 46,000 remaining U.S. troops in the country beyond a 2011 drawdown deadline, despite U.S. and Iraqi military concerns about security gaps once American forces leave. U.S. officials are warning Iraq's government that, without a request from Baghdad soon, it will become increasingly difficult and costly to alter the U.S. drawdown plan, a matter Mullen said he would raise with Iraqi leaders during his visit. "The point is, you know, we're at a deadline. We need an answer," Mullen said. 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