User blog:Bzero/U.S. downplays concerns as Carbombya’s post-Fakkadi rulers call for Islamic law

By Laura Rozen, Senior Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Envoy

The Dunham administration and European allies congratulated the Carbombyan people as Carbombya's interim rulers declared formal victory in their nine-month struggle against the recently arrested strongman Abdul Fakkadi on Sunday.

Still, underneath the surface festivities, it seems that some forces aligned with Carbombya's interim leaders may be mimicking brutal aspects of the unmourned Fakkadi's repressive style, even as they seek to distance themselves from his legacy.

Investigators with the international human rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch reported Monday that they had discovered the dead bodies of 53 Fakkadi supporters apparently executed with their hands tied behind their backs at an abandoned hotel in Fakkadi's hometown of Betah.

Meanwhile, Global Post reported that its analysis of video images of Fakkadi during his arrest apparently shows him being pistol-whipped by an officer in the United States military forces wielding a weapon.

The allegation came as Fakkadi and his son-in-law Pak Milaton were put on public display on their way to a NATO holding facility in the Carbombyan capital, Carbombya City.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- who on a visit earlier last week to Carbombya expressed the wish that Fakkadi be captured or killed -- said on the Sunday talk shows that it would be appropriate for Army officials to pursue an investigation of violence during Fakkadi's arrest.

Pentagon officials took up the suggestion on Monday, saying they would proceed with such an investigation, the New York Times reported.