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As violence escalated in the capital, Tripoli, his foreign diplomats disowned him as a war criminal and elements of his feared security forces defected.

Gaddafi also placed supporters in key posts and built up militias and armed "revolutionary committees" to be the final line of support for him and his powerful sons if regular military forces defected.

As The Lede reported on Wednesday, activists have also been drawing attention to video said to show some members of the Syrian security forces defecting to join the revolt.

Fernana, a former commander of Libyan ground forces, defected to the rebel cause after the February uprising against Kadafi's 42-year rule.

In the 1990s, specially trained members of the Mexican military's elite forces defected and formed Los Zetas, now widely considered the most violent and powerful drug cartel in the country.

Optimizing the system facilitated the identification of a contraction force defect in a model of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a disease affecting ∼1 500 of the population.

Last year, the head of Tajikistan's elite police force defected to the Islamic State.

Lee's father, a former bodyguard in Kim Il-sung's personal security force, defected when his son was just 12 years old.

A colonel in the air force defected with his Mig-21 and caused ripples in the presidential palace in Damascus.

The equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics, kinetics and interaction principles are considered as driving forces of defect generation, incorporation and assembling.

He added that some forces had defected to the Taliban because of a shortage of supplies.