1.   In his eyes, the Bosnian government proved to be too fundamentalist so he defected to join the fighting force of a Bosnian Muslim splinter group.

2.   Its conclusion was accelerated by the departure in April from Unisource of Telefonica de Espana, which defected to join British Telecommunications and MCI in a partnership called Concert.

3.   Karadzic is widely believed to have been behind the killing, since the influential deputy had defected to join Biljana Plavsic, then president of the Bosnian Serb republic.

4.   As the protests swelled, soldiers defected to join them, witnesses said.

5.   Hun Sen appealed to hardline Khmer Rouge in Anlong Veng to prepare themselves to defect to join the government.

6.   More than two dozen Republicans defected to join Democrats.