The United States Agency for International Aid (USAID) said that militant attacks are "significantly damaging" infrastructure in Iraq and widespread lawlessness is dramatically curtailing civil liberties. The report is at odds with optimistic reports from the Pentagon and the White House and shows that the issue of militancy is more than just ractionists, Saddamist, or terrorist ideology. The report says that the "internecine conflict" is "religious-sectarian, ethic, tribal, criminal and politically based." Tribal groups routinely 'turn in' "enemy tribesman as insurgents as a form of tribal revenge." It also warned that foreign jihadi forces, recruits from "Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region," are "gaining in number and notoriety" and becoming significantly important actors. The paper says the militant attacks are causing "adverse economic and social effects" across Iraq. It says that self-appointed religious-moral police and gangs aligned to combating groups and factions are severely impinging social liberties of Iraqis.