Afghanistan is only nominally led from Kabul, while real power is retained by warlords, a regrettable necessity.
Although nominally led by Gen. Sunthorn Kongsompong, another powerful leader of the junta was army chief Suchinda Kraprayoon.
Experts say the group is nominally led by Sheikh Mohamed Mukhtar Abdirahman – "Abu Zubeyr" – but most analysts insist it is a disparate coalition with divisions at all levels.
Still, a significant group of senior administration officials, nominally led by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, continue to push the investigation into Iraq's possible involvement.
Mr. Sidgmore, who took over as chief executive in late April after the resignation of Bernard J. Ebbers, will nominally lead the search together with Bert Roberts, WorldCom's chairman.
They are nominally led by Doku Umarov, self-styled "Emir of the Caucasus", who says he wants to create an Islamic caliphate across the Caucasus.
The espionage kingdom is already splintered into more than a dozen agencies, most of them nominally led by George Tenet, the director of central intelligence, but actually run by Mr. Tenet, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and several other cabinet secretaries.
Opposition groups, which are nominally led by an exiled political administration, accuse the Assad regime and Russia of bombing communities controlled by opposition fighters with impunity, and paying scant attention to Isis.
The Radical Party, nominally led by Vojislav Seselj, an indicted war-criminal suspect, jailed in The Hague, won 27% of the vote; the party of the former dictator, Slobodan Milosevic (also indicted and in jail), did well too.
The rebels, nominally led by Aslan Maskhadov, still inflict heavy losses on the Russian army south of Grozny, particularly in the mountainous regions where Caucasian clan warriors first resisted the Russian invaders two centuries ago.
