Some urged that the National Guard to be called out to protect them from rampant, drug-related violence.
The men are expected to discuss Iraq's national security and strategies to curtail the rampant sectarian violence, which is threatening to tear the country apart.
All the ethnic groups here appear to be caught in rampant violence, American officers say.
Patrol cars raced from one emergency to another as officers fought a battle of containment against rampant drug-fueled violence.
The council members were suspended by governmental decree Sunday after the national elections were canceled because of rampant violence.
The city became a racial war zone that summer with dozens injured amid rampant violence and arson.
You don't see the same type of rampant violence that we saw in the 80's where people were killing each other over spots.
In 2006, however, the school was reported to be plagued with rampant violence and defiance fueled by the racial divide in the student population.
He was making one of his regular tours in the 34th, a precinct beset with rampant violence and drugs.
But as symbols of glaring social inequality and rampant urban violence, they have traditionally been considered off limits to tourists.