The interesting snippet occurs in Edward Lucas*'s blog here:
Another interesting story on similar lines concerns a bunch of Irish republican extremists who were lured into a sting operation in Lithuania. Some leaders of the "Real IRA" had developed romantic attachments to Lithuanian women. Neat work by British officials and their Lithuanian colleagues created a few fake arms dealers—the basis for an elaborate sting operation in which the Irish gunmen found themselves, investigators say, caught red-handed trying to buy weapons to continue their terror campaign. Few details have come into the public domain yet. When they do, the story should help improve Lithuania's slightly threadbare image in Britain.
Time to re-evaluate some of the people I knew?
* Edward Lucas is the Economist's correspondent in Eastern Europe.
