Cyprus

So what?  Extending domestic national-security law to cover surveillance of a base on a sovereign UK overseas territory closes a jurisdictional gap that previously left forward military and liaison postings on foreign or dependent soil in a legal gray zone. Watch whether this precedent gets applied to any similar hostile-surveillance case at a preclearance or attaché post rather than staying limited to Cyprus's military bases, since a broader application would extend the same criminal cover to civilian forward posts as well.