The army is investigating whether British soldiers on an exercise in Latvia were deliberately provoked into a brawl and then filmed in a Russian-backed plot to portray them falsely as hooligans. Two members of the Grenadier Guards were set upon by a local gang while eating at a McDonald’s in Riga, the Baltic state’s capital, a defence source said. An early assessment of the incident had raised suspicions that it had been set up, the source added, noting that the tactic had been deployed by the IRA against British troops in Northern Ireland. Andrew Parker, director-general of MI5, warned in…

Source: The Times November 02, 2016 01:36 UTC