Britain's new security chief wants Britons to snitch more in the war on terror, while Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for an expanded European information system to prevent attacks.

In his first interview since being appointed secretary minister, Admiral Sir Alan West told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper that the U.K. faced a "disparate core" of "racist" people.

West said the fight against terror could take upwards of 15 years and urged citizens to not be afraid to report potential threats.

"Britishness does not normally involve snitching or talking about someone," West told the newspaper.

"I'm afraid, in this situation; anyone who's got any information should say something because the people we are talking about are trying to destroy our entire way of life."

The remarks stem from the fact that the doctors who hatched this latest weren't considered significant persons of interest by British security officials before the botched attacks.

Many British Muslims were fine with the idea of helping security forces, but others said extremists in the community would exert enormous pressure to block such co-operation.

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Britain wants better information from other governments, in part because Australia had turned away two doctors who ended up working in the U.K. One of  those doctors is suspected of ramming an SUV into Glasgow's airport terminal building.

Brown, in an interview with Sky News on Sunday, said an expanded information system was imperative to the fight against terrorism in Europe.

"I want the system that we are trying to expand between Europe -- a system whereby we know who are potential terrorist suspects," Brown said.

"I think it is very important that we tighten this up and it is something we are looking at as a matter of urgency."

Their comments came a day after Britons marked the second anniversary of the July 7 suicide bombings that killed 52 people in 2005.

An Iraqi doctor appeared in court on Saturday, the first to face charges over the plot to bomb London's entertainment district and Glasgow's international airport.

Bilal Abdulla, a 27-year-old doctor British native who was raised in Iraq, is accused with another man of crashing a Jeep Cherokee full of gas cylinders and gasoline into the main terminal of the airport.

Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said officials have been cooperating with British authorities and are said to be gathering information on Abdulla.

Khalaf said the ministry was trying to establish whether Abdulla is connected to al Qaeda or other insurgent groups.

Seven other suspects remain in custody but have not been charged.

Two cars packed with explosives were discovered June 29 in London's west end. The next day, a flaming Jeep Cherokee crashed into the security barriers at the Glasgow airport.

With report from CTV's Jed Kahane and files from the Associated Press