News you may have missed #436

• Iran crosses into Iraq to hit bombing suspects. Iranian forces crossed into neighboring Iraq and killed 30 Kurdish fighters from a group it says was involved in last week’s bombing of a military parade, Iran’s state TV reported Sunday. The group in Iran is a wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and sometimes operates inside friendly territory in Iraqi Kurdistan.
• German trial of Libyan spies starts in Berlin. Two Libyans, identified only as 42-year-old ‘Adel Ab’ and 46-year-old ‘Adel Al’, have gone on trial in Berlin, accused of gathering information on Libyan opposition members living in Germany. Prosecutors say the spying was “on a personal level” and “there was no technical eavesdropping involved”.
• Nine years after 9/11, US intel sharing still hobbled. More than nine years after 9/11, America’s intelligence-sharing system continues to be impeded by legal and technical difficulties. The newly created National Counterterrorism Center

(NCTC) is a good case in point.