Originally Posted by Webby

(a) It's a legal process - not a crappy TV show. Why does your national TV not make a new series out of filming all executions for TV entertainment? The people in the hanging chamber have little desire to be shown on camera - chances of them dying a natural death is remote. Times change and video evidence which could be used against them is not a good idea. Don't worry about the "financial independence" of those witnessing the execution - they have more funds than you could ever imagine (Part of them being your tax dollars - flown over in at least 21 cargo aircraft - all in fresh dollar bills, which always seem to disappear within 30 mins of landing in Iraq)

(b) The Iraqi government are hardly "conventional" - they are thugs and killers with militia units leaving govt HQ and kidnapping, torturing and killing daily. These units are not challenged by US military. To call those present "guards" or "executioner" is a grandiose term - chances are they are the same people drilling holes in skulls and shot another 20 people the previous day and left their bodies by the roadside.

(c) For the same reason as above - they don't care. Iraq is not Texas with nice fresh paint and lighting in a death chamber pretending to be something it's not. Bets on that the same hanging chamber was used to kill others (unofficially) the previous day. There is no bursting desire to film anything - the people performing/witnessing the execution will also be killed/hung at some point as the tide changes. Why provide more evidence? It's a fickle world.

Sure it's weird - and bet we don't know half of it