LONDON, 7 July 2007 — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday called for the establishment of an international register of potential terrorists and better coordination internationally between governments and security authorities.

At home, he wants greater cooperation between the armed, security and emergency services; and pledged to take on the Al-Qaeda' propaganda battle culturally and in the media. The aim is to isolate the extremists and to promote the strategy to win “hearts and minds,” especially of young Muslims. Speaking on BBC One’s “Breakfast Program” yesterday morning, the prime minister stressed that "what we have got to do, however, is to persuade people that the values we hold important are the values of all decent people in all religions and all faiths. I think we saw in the last week the best of Britain, people coming together in the face of a terrorist threat and Britain showing to the rest of the world that we would be unyielding any time that anybody tries to do damage to our country."

The prime minister praised the speed of the investigation both in the UK and the links in Australia, and assured the British public that Scotland Yard was "getting to the bottom" of the attacks. “This is an international investigation now. I believe from what I know we are getting to the bottom of this cell that has been responsible for what has been happening. Of course, this has got to go to court and police have got to continue their investigation, but I want people to know that we have acted very quickly to deal with potential future incidents.”

As Britain prepares for its summer holidays, the prime minister warned holidaymakers to brace themselves for a summer of delays at airports and ports. "It's going to be very difficult for people, but I do think they will understand. But he added: "Crowded places and airports, I think people will have to accept that the security has got to be more intense. We have got to avoid the possibility, and it's very difficult, that people can use these crowded places for explosions."

Gordon Brown’s call came in the wake of more police raids in Australia yesterday, when they seized new evidence and questioned five more Indian doctors over last week's failed car bomb attacks in central London and Glasgow Airport in the UK.

All five had links with the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, amid growing speculation and evidence that a worldwide network of medics and technicians was behind the foiled terror plot in the UK. According to Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty, police confiscated 31,000 documents, including foreign computer files, at two Western Australian hospitals, one in Perth and the other in the Outback mining town of Kalgoorlie.

Australian police at the same time were yesterday given an extra four days to question Dr. Mohammed Haneef, a cousin of Drs. Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed — both held in London after the attacks. Dr. Haneef was detained at Brisbane Airport in Queensland as he tried to leave for India on Monday on a one-way air ticket.

The Australian Medical Association also revealed yesterday that Drs. Sabeel and Kafeel Ahmed, the two brothers, were refused registration to practice medicine in Australia on the grounds that their qualifications were not good enough. "We checked their qualifications and references and decided that they did not meet the standard required.”

It had nothing to do with suspicions of any terrorist associations,” explained Geoff Dobb, the president of the Australian Medical Association, to reporters yesterday.

In fact, Dr. Kafeel Ahmed, the terror suspect fighting for his life with critical 90 percent burns after the burning Jeep attack on Glasgow Airport, was yesterday also transferred to a specialist burns unit at the Glasgow Royal Hospital. Ahmed, who was the driver of the Jeep, doused himself in petrol and set light to himself in last Saturday’s attack.

A senior Scotland Yard counterterrorism officer is already in Australia and is participating in the questioning of Dr. Haneef.

Seven people, all linked to Britain’s National Health Service, have been arrested over the failed attacks in Glasgow and London.

Federal Police Commissioner Keelty stressed at a press conference that the new people questioned were “migrant doctors, of similar nationality and background to the other doctors that are being questioned. There are a number of people now being interviewed. It is quite a complex investigation and the links to the UK are now becoming more concrete. The people we are trying to talk to at the moment ... we are trying to gather evidence and information about the network, about who is linked to who — and who, if in fact anybody, has committed any criminal offense.”

In the UK, Muslims are uniting under a coalition calling itself ‘Muslims United’ to put overt the message of mainstream moderate Islam. They put out a stream of adverts coming out in today’s national newspapers condemning the failed attacks as contrary to the teachings of Islam.

Borrowing a phrase used by British opponents of the Iraq war, the catchphrase of the campaign is: “Not in our name”.

The adverts carry a quotation from the Qur’an saying: “Whoever kills an innocent soul, it is as if he killed the whole of mankind. And whoever saves one, it is as if he saved the whole of mankind.”

Members of the Muslims United coalition behind the campaign include the Conservative Muslim Forum, Islamic Relief, the Islamic Society of Britain and groups such as the Muslim Doctors and Dentists Association.