1.   Chamoun was the son of former Lebanese President Camille Chamoun, and one of the last remaining hereditary leaders in Lebanon.

2.   The chairman will be Hamid Karzai, a Pashtun hereditary leader who was deputy foreign minister in the pre-Taliban government.

3.   Swaziland also is unusual for the power still held by hereditary leaders, from chiefs to the king.

4.   Tribal chiefs have been guaranteed seats on the councils, but hereditary leaders who once had unchallenged say over traditional matters will find themselves one among many decision-makers.

5.   Another former pro-communist militiaman in alliance with Dostam and Masood is General Sayyad Jaffar Naderi, hereditary leader of the Ismaelia religious minority in central Afghanistan.