I don't know the specifics of why they couldn't get them out alive... There seems to be no reason why they couldn't just institute a seige. Lock them in for a month if you have to... lob in knock out gas... whatever.
Seems to me they were more valuable alive as an example than dead as an example.
Showing the photos has been deemed neccessary in order to convince the Iraqi people that they were in fact killed. Apparently there is still much doubt.
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