General Assidi traced the resurging lawlessness back about a year, to the murder of the legendary director of the Freedom Theater, an oasis for decades of so-called cultural resistance.
However, much of the public debate in recent months has been not about lawlessness by elite groups, but about youth gangs and street crime.
'It was about lawlessness.
Residents said they were relieved that Mr. Hussein had been toppled, but were apprehensive about lawlessness.
But for people still worried about the safety of their homes, the subtlety of that method frustrates many who are still worried about lawlessness.
Kenyans frustrated with the country's dismal economy, entrenched corruption and general sense of lawlessness speak openly about the need for a shake-up at the top.
The explosion and stampede that killed 1,000 people in Lagos, Nigeria, follows rising lawlessness and doubt about an elected government seen as ineffective, uncaring and dangerously fragile.
Lithuania's powerful security service, the VSD, is in the centre of a political storm, but worries about lawlessness and foreign penetration ripple from the Baltic to the Black Sea.Four countries Poland and the three Baltic states worry a lot about Russian revisionism (or revanchism).
The Pentagon has already sent Georgia ten helicopters.Russia, for its part, has been grumbling loudly about "lawlessness" in the gorge for much longer and has been itching to chase Chechen fighters across the border or even to bomb the place.
And it was notable that most of Estonia's ethnic Russians who voted (around a fifth of the electorate) seem to have gone for Estonian, rather than specifically Russian, parties.But Estonians worry about lawlessness, even banditry, spilling over the border.
