They were given to the US for detention at a time when US forces were heavily reliant on Afghan proxies who had their own agendas and who accepted bounties for captives.
Campaigners in Colorado used the success of their state's medical system to argue for the creation of a recreational one.They also hinted at the great bounties that pot taxes could deliver to state coffers.
These days new channels have to pay heavy upfront fees (known as bounties), which they hope gradually to recoup.
In 2002, one brother was killed and another arrested; six of the gang's other leaders are now in jail; two other brothers are on the run, with $5m bounties on their heads.
The payment of bounties might end up enriching a few lawyers but leave the rest of the profession, and its corporate clients, worse off.
There are bounties to be had for killing Russian troops and blowing up their vehicles.
Many of these men claim to have committed no offence except being in the wrong place Afghanistan at the wrong time, or to have been sold to American forces for the bounties they offered.
It is offering bounties for the capture of fugitive members of the regime overthrown last month after the security forces had killed more than 80 people.Revolution is in the air in Asia again, as it was two decades ago, when a series of "people-power" movements swept unpopular regimes from government; or forced them into big reforms; or, in two countries, were quelled by a hail of bullets.
Such firms might be offered bounties, it was reported, to hunt down welfare cheats claiming poverty while spending suspiciously large sums.
The tax deductibility of interest payments on debt gives private-equity executives an incentive to pile extra debt onto the companies they buy, thereby risking the health of these firms for the sake of a tax benefit and the prospect of higher returns.There is another way in which the tax code is responsible for allowing private-equity types to walk off with vast bounties.
Sadly, there are too many lionfish about, and the bounties have proved too expensive to sustain.
