126 dead and 150 injured in Baghdad, unfortunately even more than Friday night's massacre in Bangladesh. Two massacres claimed by ISIS, two different targets: foreigners in Dhaka, Muslims (not just Shiites) in the Iraqi capital. The strategy of tension and sectarian hatred applied thousands of miles away. On one side the new South-East Asian front, on the other the old Iraqi front. There a commando of young killers in action in a restaurant, here the ancient method of the truck bomb exploding in the crowd on the street.
In Dhaka the nightmare of a kidnapping that lasted hours, in Baghdad an instantaneous roar that gutted buildings and wiped out hundreds of lives in front of a shopping center, in the worst massacre of the last year. A week ago the Iraqi army drove Isis from the stronghold of Falluja, fifty kilometers from the capital. In these hours the Caliphate has presented the bill for that reconquest to the fragile and unpopular Iraqi government.
