Arrest shows war has not flagged: Bush

President George W Bush said Ramzi Binalshibh’s arrest showed the war on terrorism had not flagged.

“I had the feeling that after September the 11th, that some around the world would grow weary and tired of this effort,” Bush said during a speech in Iowa.

“But that’s not how America feels. That’s not how that fellow who’s been picked up in Pakistan feels, too.”

The FBI believes that Binalshibh shared a room in Hamburg with Mohammed Atta, believed to have been the leader of the suicide hijackers.

Binalshibh apparently fled Germany for Pakistan around September 11 2001.