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.
The Taliban and other anti-government elements have been blamed for 4 out of every 5 civilians who were killed in Afghanistan last year - continuing a rising trend since 2007. The number of civilian deaths resulting from pro-government forces has by contrast fallen by 23%.