{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "id": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/counter-terrorism-cooperation.json",
  "title": "Counter-Terrorism Information Sharing — bilateral US-RF architecture (Domain #1)",
  "version": "1.0",
  "issued": "2026-05-19",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "NIGHTBOX LLC",
    "url": "https://nightboxllc.com",
    "sam_uei": "UHCAB6UXXKF2",
    "cage_code": "20BA7"
  },
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "human_readable_uri": "https://nightboxllc.com/counter-terrorism-cooperation",
  "human_readable_uri_ru": "https://nightboxllc.com/ru/counter-terrorism-cooperation",

  "anchor_doctrine": {
    "framework": "Liaison Framework v2.3",
    "framework_uri": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/liaison-framework.json",
    "practical_friendship_program_domain": 1,
    "domain_name": "Counter-Terrorism Information Sharing"
  },

  "thesis": "The bilateral architecture for US-RF counter-terrorism cooperation already exists. It is multilaterally anchored (UNSC 1267/1373/1988/2255), bilaterally complemented (1999 MLAT, joint designations, INTERPOL coordination), and historically demonstrated (FSB-FBI Tsarnaev precedent, post-9/11 OEF cooperation, joint sanctions list additions). The question is activation, not invention. NIGHTBOX advocates editorial activation of existing channels — never extrajudicial substitution of them.",

  "case_study_2026_05": {
    "subject": "Taliban personal-status law reportedly recognizing child marriage and treating silence of a minor girl as marital consent",
    "international_law_violations": [
      {"instrument": "UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)", "rf_status": "ratified_1990", "us_status": "signed_1995_not_ratified_but_parallel_domestic_protections"},
      {"instrument": "CEDAW", "rf_status": "ratified", "us_status": "signed_not_ratified_but_parallel_domestic_protections"},
      {"instrument": "UDHR Article 16 (free and full consent in marriage)", "rf_status": "voted_for", "us_status": "voted_for"},
      {"instrument": "UNSC 1325 (women, peace, security)", "rf_status": "voted_for", "us_status": "voted_for"}
    ],
    "convergence_observation": "Taliban regime is designated by both US and RF as terrorist authority. Both vote for UNSC Taliban sanctions. Neither recognizes the Taliban government. This is one of the cleanest US-RF policy alignments in the current period."
  },

  "existing_bilateral_architecture": [
    {"instrument": "UNSC Resolution 1267", "year": 1999, "status": "active", "purpose": "Al-Qaeda/Taliban Sanctions Committee: travel ban, asset freeze, arms embargo. US-RF cosponsored."},
    {"instrument": "UNSC Resolution 1373", "year": 2001, "status": "active", "purpose": "Global CT obligations: terrorist financing criminalization, asset freezes, mutual legal assistance. Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) reporting."},
    {"instrument": "UNSC Resolution 1988", "year": 2011, "status": "active", "purpose": "Taliban-specific sanctions track separated from 1267. Named-individual designations including senior Taliban figures."},
    {"instrument": "UNSC Resolution 2255", "year": 2015, "status": "active", "purpose": "Strengthened 1988: explicit arms embargo, expanded travel ban, enhanced asset-freeze provisions."},
    {"instrument": "FATF (Financial Action Task Force)", "year": 1989, "status": "active", "purpose": "Both US and RF founding members. Taliban-finance tracking, mutual evaluation, blacklisting of facilitating jurisdictions."},
    {"instrument": "US-RF Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT)", "year": 1999, "status": "in_force", "purpose": "Evidence requests, witness testimony, asset tracing. Has not been formally suspended."},
    {"instrument": "INTERPOL", "year": 1923, "status": "active", "purpose": "Red Notice coordination. Both states participate. Used jointly against terrorism-designated individuals."},
    {"instrument": "Global Magnitsky Act (US) + RF counterpart-list framework", "year": "2016 / 2018", "status": "active", "purpose": "Individual-level human-rights sanctions in each jurisdiction. Designed for cases like named officials signing legalized atrocities."}
  ],

  "historical_precedents": [
    {"name": "FSB-FBI Tsarnaev warning", "year": 2011, "summary": "Russian FSB formally warned US FBI about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's radicalization two years before the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Public-record example of bilateral CT-info-sharing operating as designed."},
    {"name": "Russia + Operation Enduring Freedom", "year_range": "2001-2014", "summary": "After 9/11, Russia provided overflight rights, intelligence support, and basing-access cooperation for US operations against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan."},
    {"name": "Joint UNSC sanctions designations", "year_range": "1999-present", "summary": "Dozens of joint US-RF additions to the 1267/1988 sanctions lists, covering Al-Qaeda, ISIS-K, and Taliban-affiliated individuals."},
    {"name": "ISIS-K Crocus City Hall response", "year": 2024, "summary": "Following March 2024 attack in Moscow, US intelligence sharing on ISIS-K threat indicators (including pre-attack public US Embassy advisory) was publicly acknowledged."},
    {"name": "Counter-narcotics on Afghan opiates", "year_range": "2002-2014", "summary": "INL and FSKN (now FSB Drug Control) joint working group targeting Taliban-adjacent opiate economy."}
  ],

  "legitimate_activation_steps": [
    {"step": 1, "action": "Joint statement at UN Human Rights Council under existing CRC + CEDAW frameworks"},
    {"step": 2, "action": "Add named Taliban judges/ministers to UNSC 1988 sanctions list via Committee consensus"},
    {"step": 3, "action": "Coordinated Global Magnitsky + RF counterpart-list individual designations against named officials"},
    {"step": 4, "action": "FATF tightening of Taliban-controlled financial channels via mutual evaluation acceleration"},
    {"step": 5, "action": "UNSC referral to International Criminal Court (joint non-veto path; neither US nor RF is ICC State Party but neither needs to be to support referral)"},
    {"step": 6, "action": "INTERPOL Red Notices on named officials"},
    {"step": 7, "action": "Coordinated funding/accommodation of NGO documentation (HRW, Amnesty, AIHRC in exile, OHCHR)"},
    {"step": 8, "action": "Sustained joint advisory regime: travel, banking, sector advisories with coordinated US Treasury + RF counterpart issuance"}
  ],

  "scope_discipline": {
    "in_scope": [
      "Editorial advocacy via public-record argumentation",
      "Sanctions advocacy via published lists of existing instruments",
      "Designation advocacy via referenced UNSC and Magnitsky frameworks",
      "UN system engagement via referenced HRC and ICC channels",
      "Documentation advocacy via referenced NGO partners"
    ],
    "outside_scope": [
      "Any use-of-force coordination, targeting, dispatch, or facilitation",
      "Any private-actor military or paramilitary action",
      "Any provision of services to designated foreign principals (FARA-relevant)",
      "Any short-circuiting of established state-level CT institutions",
      "Any kinetic, lethal, or extrajudicial step of any kind, by any party, against any individual"
    ],
    "summary": "Wyoming LLCs publish, advocate, and document. They do not coordinate state-level CT operations. The boring, legal, internationally coordinated channel is the channel that actually works against monsters who legalize child abuse. NIGHTBOX advocates for that channel to be activated."
  },

  "related_manifests": [
    "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/liaison-framework.json",
    "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/iss-cooperation.json",
    "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/digital-customs-doctrine.json",
    "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/foreign-interference-threat-doctrine.json"
  ],

  "contact": "artem@nightboxllc.com"
}