He'd been connected, I remembered, specializing in marijuana sales and debt collection and low-level physical violence.

"But I think violence, at least low-level violence, is becoming a threat."

However, Shia discontent has resurfaced in recent years with street demonstrations and occasional low-level violence.

Large-scale bombings and attacks mainly stopped with the group's 1994 cease-fire, they said, but low-level violence and organized crime have continued.

Since 1994, those strains have played out in a campaign of low-level violence, including bombings and other attacks, that have claimed more than two dozen lives.

The man who brought Uganda, with its singularly violent history, back to peace was accused of running a campaign of low-level violence and harassment.

The revolt culminated from decades of low-level violence by the local Spanish settlers against Indians beginning in 1684.

The threat faced by the American forces would come instead from land mines "and from various forms of random, sporadic low-level violence," the report said.

But low-level violence can produce the opposite effect.

The show is rated in New Zealand and contains low-level violence.