If necessary, he could carry a backpack that weighed thirty kilos as if it were nothing, but usually he travelled without a pack: his pockets were enough.

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He said nothing to Petraeus about the general's decision to pull back the thirty thousand troops sent for the surge by next July.

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Thirty-year-old Parks, who has four Wales caps, insists he has nothing to prove to his former employers, despite struggling to establish himself in the Perpignan side last year.

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