San Juan Peace Net

Here’s what’s happening on Friday from 6 to 8 pm in Aztec…

Artist reception for metalsmith Meagan Crowley of Delores, Colorado at the A. Teasyatwho Gallery. Maegan was an exhibitor in the “Women Do Iron” show at the gallery last summer.

Artist reception for clay sculptor Katee McClure and painter Jazz Morgan at the Feat of Clay Artist Co-op.

Local author, Gary D. Oliver will be on hand at Hard Backs to sign copies his recent book, “The Rescue of Fletcher Morgan”.

Dragonfly at 108 S. Main will be open and Homestead at 110 S. Main will be open too!

FARMINGTON

Telegraph | News | Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib
The notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad is at the centre of fresh abuse allegations just a week after it was handed over to Iraqi authorities, with claims that inmates are being tortured by their new captors.

Staff at the jail say the Iraqi authorities have moved dozens of terrorist suspects into Abu Ghraib from the controversial Interior Ministry detention centre in Jadriyah, where United States troops last year discovered 169 prisoners who had been tortured and starved.

wcbstv.com – Rockefeller: Bush Duped Public On Iraq
Senator Says World Would Be Better Without Iraq Invasion

(CBS News) WASHINGTON When the Senate Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of its findings this past week, the Republican chairman of the committee, Pat Roberts, left town without doing interviews, calling the report a rehash of unfounded partisan allegations.

Its statements like this one, made Feb. 5, 2003, by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell that have become so controversial, implying Iraq was linked to terror attacks.

BREITBART.COM – Senate: No Prewar Saddam-al-Qaida Ties
There’s no evidence Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Al-Qaida associates, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence on Iraq. Democrats said the report undercuts President Bush’s justification for going to war.

The declassified document being released Friday by the Senate Intelligence Committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.

France rejects “war on terror” | International News | Reuters.com
PARIS (Reuters) – France issued an implicit criticism of U.S. foreign policy on Thursday, rejecting talk of a “war on terror”.

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, speaking in parliament, expressed these views on global terrorism, while President Jacques Chirac backed France’s claims to the international front rank with a fresh defense of his country’s nuclear arsenal.