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“The people in Detroit were prepared to look at him in secondary inspection,” a senior law enforcement official said. “The decision had been made. The [database] had picked up the State Department concern about this guy — that this guy may have been involved with extremist elements in Yemen.” A Nigerian man got on board of an airplane bombed a plane while it was flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. He came from Ghana. They are requiring a foreign visitor to undergo special scrutiny upon arrival in the U.S. is considerably lower than criteria for stopping a passenger’s departure overseas, according to current and former law enforcement officials.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-airline-terror7-2010jan07,0,7706989.story

Former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings says a fire razed his home early this morning. The good thing was that he wasn’t home when it happened. His wife and daughters were there at the time, but they escaped the fire without any inguries.  The fire   was around  four in the morning. A person named Adam says that the fire had destroyed the former presidents personal effects for him and his family.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-af-ghana-rawlings-fire,0,4473031.story

          A guy named Z ibo Mounkaila was in the back of his pick up truck when a big suprise happened. GIRAFFES!!!!! They are one of the tallest animals on earth and they’re wandering around the villages in West Africa. They are not suppose to be there in Africa, but people think that they traveled form some other place in Africa to West Africa. There hasn’t been Giraffes since a hundred years ago. There were giraffes all over Chad in the heart of the continent. It was like an extinction, but they came back out of nowhere. Now there are just nine giraffes in West Africa which are distinguished in a geographical area. Ten years ago, 140,00 giraffes appeared in Africa.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/11/west-africas-last-giraffes-make-surprise-comeback.html

          The gunfire that happened was a suprise to many people. It killed three people and had injured eight. It is reproted to say that the gunfire had even killed the bus driver of the team. They had been schedualed to have trained in Angola and play against Ghana. They can’t play anymore because of the terrible event that had happened most of there team is gone. The shooting lasted for half an hour. People are saying that the people who started attacking the Togo team was held by separist rebels.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-jones-soccer10-2010jan10,0,4203500.story