© AP Photo/Shane T.McCoy, U.S. Navy The first group of captives transferred from Afghanistan begins detention at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Photographs of the detainees in orange jumpsuits, apparently hooded and in chains, provoke an international outcry.

The Department of Justice announces that it is filing criminal charges against John Walker Lindh, a US citizen taken prisoner while apparently fighting alongside Taliban forces. He is charged with conspiring to kill members of the US military in Afghanistan, and with providing material support and resources to foreign terrorist organizations, including al-Qaeda.

In his State of Union Address, President Bush says Iraq, Iran and North Korea constitute an "axis of evil," and claims that "by seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger." The President warns that these countries could provide these weapons to terrorists, blackmail the United States, or attack its allies.