So why re-sign him, if not as an atta-boy for another job well done?
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Mr Atta Mills was national tax commissioner under Mr Rawlings before being promoted to the vice-presidency.
Those arrested include people believed to have planned and executed the attacks, Atta said.
Political maturity was also on full display following the death of former president John Atta-Mills in July.
In the same month he travelled to Spain at the same time that Mr Atta was there.
Law enforcement sources said they believed Atta and some Middle Eastern colleagues had indeed visited the air strip.
It was with great regret that I learned of the passing of President John Evans Atta Mills of Ghana.
Kellie Van Atta teaches 9th grade English at a private school in California.
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Atta said charges against the contractor in custody have yet to be determined.
Qassim Atta, denied reports that Syrian warplanes struck inside Iraq's border towns.
Since 1981, Ghana has had the following presidents: Jerry John Rawlings, John Kufuor, John Atta Mills, and now John Mahama.
Atta and a second suspect, Marwan Al-Shehhi, also studied in the city's Harburg Technical University, in Hamburg, German prosecutor's say.
Law enforcement sources said Atta had also inquired about a loan for a plane purchase at a Homestead, Florida, bank.
Mr Mahama was Ghana's vice-president until the unexpected death of President John Atta Mills in July catapulted him into office.
The panel also dismissed reports that Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in the Czech Republic on April 9, 2000.
In the afternoon, the President will host President John Evans Atta Mills of Ghana for a meeting in the Oval Office.
Mr Akufo-Addo, 68, narrowly lost the 2008 election to John Atta Mills in the second round, after leading in the first round.
It mirrors the election four years ago in which Akufo-Addo lost to John Atta Mills with a razor-thin margin after a runoff.
They were followed by Atta, the only trained pilot in the group.
Born on 21 July 1944 at Tarkwa in western Ghana, "The Prof", as Mr Atta Mills is known, has pursued a long academic career.
Atta said the number of female searchers was increased this time.
But a vehicle ban will stay in place in three Shiite militia strongholds -- neighborhoods in the capital, including Sadr City, Kadhimiya and Shulaa, Atta said.
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In contrast to the advertising billboards of his rival NPP candidate, Mr Atta Mills began his campaign with modest-sized signboards bearing the slogan "I Believe in Ghana".
Mr Mahama, from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party, was Ghana's vice-president until the unexpected death of President John Atta Mills in July catapulted him into office.
Qassim Atta, a spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command, announced Friday that members of an insurgent cell behind the bombings had been arrested within two hours of the attacks.
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Or of the unity of the Ghanaians as John Atta Mills dropped his baton - a death greeted with dignity by chiefs and villagers, heads of state and street children.
But I suspect it is because the new government of President John Atta Mills appears to be predisposed to see evil and corruption in everything the previous government has done.
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