The hype for the new season will reach a new pitch during the 2015 NFL Draft. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will have the first overall pick in this yearâs draft, which will run April 30 to May 2. The Patriots, as the defending champions, will pick last.
The CIA has disclosed that four of its officers have been killed in Afghanistan in the past eight years. One of them was Johnny Mike Spann, a paramilitary officer who was killed during a riot at the Qala-i-Jangi compound near Mazar-i-Sharif in November 2001.
A NATO official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that after the attacks NATO sent AWACS planes to patrol American skies and deployed a third of the troops in Afghanistan for more than a decade; more than 1,000 soldiers from non-U.S. NATO allies and partners were killed there, the official pointed out.