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And in this sense , although we are being very careful because this was a political attack , we are also taking things calmly because in order to do our work we have to identify people for organizational reasons : just like [ commercial companies ] have to identify international people that are working with them , we have to do the same . They attacked [ Humeston ] as if he was a political candidate . " The 502 delegates accepted a political system with a strong president and a weaker parliament , similar to the version sought by President Hamid Karzai and backed by the Bush administration , despite vehement objections from ethnic minority leaders and Islamic fundamentalists at the historic meeting . Aside from his stint as head of the Federal Security Service , Putin was a political unknown until President Boris Yeltsin appointed him prime minister in 1999 . If ever there was a political mafia , the Dons are Cheney and Rove . A week ago , Sarah Teather was a political unknown .