Middle East convulses as Rice visits

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By Stan Goodenough
January 16, 2007

At least 60 people were butchered and more than 100 others were wounded in a double bombing attack near a Baghdad university cabinet Tuesday.

The vicious assault came as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was touring the Middle East in a bid to get Arab support for President George W. Bush’s new effort to get a handle on the spiraling civil strife situation in Iraq.

Insurgents, many Iraqis, and multitudes of Muslims are deeply resentful of the American military presence in the heart of the Islamic world.

While Tuesday’s bombing is just the latest in a seemingly never-ending wave of murderous attacks, its deadly size and effectiveness may have been intended to send a message of defiance to Washington.

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