Brown wants global terror register

By Jeremy Lovell

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday he wanted a central register of known or suspected terrorists so that information could be shared internationally.

He spoke as his new Security Minister Admiral Alan West warned the defeat of militant radicalism could take up to 15 years, and urged people to become informers.

"If there is information in one country about the potential recruitment or the actual recruitment of someone to a terrorist group then that should be information that is flowing to other countries," Brown told Sky News.

Britain remains on its second highest alert level more than a week after two failed car bomb attacks in central London's theatre and nightclub district and two men smashed a car into the main terminal at Scotland's busy Glasgow airport and set it ablaze.

The attacks came days after Brown took over as prime minister from Tony Blair and were seen in some quarters as a direct challenge to his authority.

They also happened within hours of West taking up his new post as the country faces what security sources said is a proliferation of plots against it.

"This is not a quick thing. I believe it will take 10 to 15 years," West told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. "But I believe it can be done as long as we as a nation apply ourselves to it and it's done across the board."

He urged Britons who had knowledge or suspicion of terrorist activities to inform the authorities.