But the most urgent question of all is what to do about it, and whether the United States should continue to invest in a Pakistani military whose assurances that it does not work with terrorists carry less weight than ever.
Whether a retraction is forthcoming or not, the African Union should act immediately to relocate its human rights commission's headquarters from the Gambia to another African state whose assurances regarding respect for the commission's mission and work can be trusted.
It can lend confidence to groups whose self-assurance and identity have been critically compromised during periods of violent conflict.
McGehee now joins a first-place team whose self-assurance may be starting to waver.
His tenure as chairman of the British Horseracing Authority has revealed Paul Roy as a man whose self-assurance will sometimes develop, with little obvious foundation to many who love the sport, into rampant self-certainty.
A forty-yearold child, he feels abashed every time he comes into contact with his father, Robert Spritzel Michael Cainee), a well-known serious writer whose self-assurance is so crushing that he needn't ever raise his voice to dominate other people.
That became less certain with the goal from Porter that brought Motherwell back into the match, resulting in a loss of conviction among Hearts players whose self-assurance was still vulnerable after such a lengthy period without a victory.
The golden couple whose imminent nuptials are about to be celebrated at a waterside estate are Lila (a miscast Anna Paquin), a brusque, staunchly upbeat blonde, and Tom Josh Duhamell), a handsome scholar and athlete whose self-assurance conceals an ambivalence bordering on panic.
The intention is to be aggressive only in their determination rather than their behaviour, but the indication is still of a group of players whose self-assurance and esteem are robust.
Bill Nighy is excellent as the senior consultant whose willowy assurance gives way to bursts of rage.
