Gaffer Tape said:
"Hey, Leia, screw giving our friends away! Maybe we can make some money off of this! Alright. Here's the plan..."

That made me laugh really hard.

I guess the rational behind the "You will deliver Han Solo and the Wookie to me" was that they were making it look like Chewie got captured by Bossh (or whoever Leia was disguised as), so as far as Jabba knew, Chewie came into his possession the same way Han did, via purchase from a bounty hunter.

Honestly, Jabba's forces in his palace were pretty primitive, some weirdos standing around with blaster pistols on their belts, but the main guards are obese mutant hogs with "vibro axes" with I guess having the ability to vibrate makes them just that much deadlier than your run of the mill axes, but it still seems like once they had confirmation that Han was just hanging around as a decoration in Jabba's place that Leia could have pulled some strings and had a highly trained and heavily armed squad of Rebel soldiers infiltrate the palace and pull him out of there while probably leaving far less bodies lying around than Luke ended up doing.

Han is the guy who rescued the princess and helped blow up the Death Star, only to end up saving the princess again and ends up getting captured in the process. Seems like the Alliance would be willing to lend a few guys to securing his rescue.