Assassinations replacing car bombs in Iraq
• Miami HeraldBAGHDAD -- U.S. and Iraqi officials are seeing a shift in violence in Iraq from mass car bombings to assassinations using magnetic bombs, weapons with silencers and bicycle bombs.
BAGHDAD -- U.S. and Iraqi officials are seeing a shift in violence in Iraq from mass car bombings to assassinations using magnetic bombs, weapons with silencers and bicycle bombs.

Which means a shift from terrorist tactics to one of guerrillas. Not terribly comforting to anyone connected to the government, but makes the civilians more supportive of the terrorists.