1.   Mordechai is the latest of a recent series of prominent Likud defectors.

2.   Only Thaksin could come even close, assuming his new party attracted enough prominent defectors.

3.   Police reported little progress Tuesday in their probe into the weekend shooting of a prominent North Korean defector.

4.   A prominent defector from North Korea said Monday an anti-government resistance force exists in the reclusive communist state.

5.   A prominent Soviet defector, Oleg Gordievsky, a former high-ranking KGB officer, has suggested Russian authorities had doctored the manuscript.

6.   Another prominent defector said he doubted all had been forgiven.

7.   Aziz also claimed that the most prominent defector, Lt. Gen. Hussein Kamel al-Majid, had been working for the CIA.

8.   China appealed Friday to North and South Korea to settle the fate of a prominent North Korean defector stuck inside the South Korean consulate for over three works.

9.   Prominent Iraqi defector Gen. Nizar al-Khazraji, former army chief of staff, is welcome in Jordan, officials said Thursday.

10.   Prominent North Korean defectors can be targets of assassination attempts, they said.