{"id":551,"date":"2004-08-16T11:17:58","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2004-08-16T11:17:58","modified_gmt":"2004-08-16T15:17:58","slug":"being-a-bounty-hunter-is-not-what-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Being a Bounty Hunter is not what it used to be."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image550\" alt=\"bounty.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/bounty.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As some of you may know a couple of Bounty Hunters (yes, real life bounty        hunters) were <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3568670.stm\">arrested<\/a>        in Kabul, Afghanistan a few months ago. Their crime you ask? Running their        own private jail in a foreign country. It&#8217;s the kind of thing that&#8217;s frowned        upon now days. Jonathan Idema, and two of his colleagues were arrested when        an Afghan man alerted authorities that he was interrogated by Americans        in a house in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Idema and his friends claim they are working for the US Military and that        they have had contact with the Secretary of Defense&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Idema and two other American men, Edward Caraballo and Brent Bennett, are accused of illegally entering Afghanistan and running a private jail. A lawyer acting for Mr Caraballo made the surprise announcement that the FBI was giving access to a large amount of potentially key material that was in its hands just before the trial began. The lawyer said he had not seen the material yet, and asked for a week&#8217;s delay to study it.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Mr Idema, wearing dark sunglasses and a khaki army shirt with a US flag on the shoulder, had claimed that hundreds of videos, photos and documents were removed by US FBI officers after his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I had those documents given back to me I could show every bit of this &#8211; I have documents from the Pentagon, back and forth with senior officials at the Pentagon, the CIA, FBI,&#8221; he told the court.<\/p>\n<p>He said the documents would prove that &#8220;while we were not in the United States Army we were working for the United States Army&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think Bounty Hunters got caught, aren&#8217;t they supposed to be the ones        doing the catching? I guess the knew look as an American abroad is the khaki        shirt with dark sunglasses and a beard. Of course don&#8217;t forget your small        assault rifle.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in a career in Bounty Hunting (domestic or international        like Mr. Idema) I recommend you head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beabountyhunter.com\/main.htm\">www.beabountyhunter.com<\/a>.        You will find all the information you need. Also if you would like to start        your career where Mr. Idema left off you should check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mustafahotel.com\/\">Mustafa        Hotel<\/a> in Kabul. That&#8217;s where Mr. Idema was known to frequent as a Bounty        Hunter in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may know a couple of Bounty Hunters (yes, real life bounty hunters) were arrested in Kabul, Afghanistan a few months ago. Their crime you ask? Running their own private jail in a foreign country. It&#8217;s the kind of thing that&#8217;s frowned upon now days. Jonathan Idema, and two of his colleagues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-8T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}