Bounty hunters called in to track down FARC terrorist leadership

More desperate stupidity. You can't make this shit up.

COLOMBIA has issued an appeal to bounty hunters around the world to capture wanted Marxist guerrillas after admitting a reward was paid for a rebel leader kidnapped in Venezuela.

Francisco Santos, Colombia’s vice-president, said his government had the money to offer "good rewards" and wanted to attract "all the bounty hunters of the world" to the country.

His announcement came after the defence minister, Jorge Alberto Uribe, admitted an undisclosed sum, believed to be more than $1 million (£530,000), was paid for the capture of the rebel Rodrigo Granda, a commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). He was snatched from the streets of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, apparently by moonlighting members of the country’s security forces.

He was smuggled across the border into Colombia in the boot of a car and handed over to police in exchange for the reward.

Scotsman.com

Which means that it's actually China's money, I guess.

the world (or at least shrubs) is becoming like the old wild west:

U.S. Bounty Hunter on Trial in Afghanistan

By Martin Brass, Soldier of Fortune Magazine

The badlands of Afghanistan have become a magnet for adventure-seeking "soldiers of fortune," private contractors, self-proclaimed counter-terrorism experts, and/or security guards.

Bounty hunters and fortune seekers, fed up with low-paying, boring grunt work, arm themselves, preparing for a wild chase with high financial rewards. Some hope to capture the ultimate prize -- Osama bin Laden -- for the $25 million bounty, placed on his head by the United States.

This new breed of non-uniformed warriors has replaced men in uniform, in roles traditionally reserved for the military.

"You'd see them speeding around in SUVs with tinted windows, sipping tea with Afghan warlords and commanders, barrel-chested men in their thirties and forties with short-cropped hair and accents from the South and Midwest. Ask them who they were, or what they were up to, and you'd get a broad, insolent grin.

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http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,SOF_0804_Idema,00.html

I was reading about him just the other day, but can't remember why his name came up again.