[Gunslingr3]

I was referring to the last paragraph, where the word occurs. Killing the deputy mayor of Baghdad is an "assassination" not a "guerilla attack".

That's a mighty fine hair you're trying to split - to what end? We're in a guerilla war, and it's stupid (indeed counterproductive) to pretend otherwise.

[AmishDude]

It would be stupid to assume we are in a guerilla war. It is not. They are not trying to defeat an army in any traditional sense. A guerilla war is an attempt to do such damage to the military that it cannot win tactically. That is not the case here. They want the civilian leadership to cancel the mission because of perceived defeats. It's terrorism, plain and simple.

Unless, of course, all terrorism (particularly in Israel, for example) is guerilla warfare. In that case and only that case, you're right. But I'm not going to confuse the two.