Germany will create a national database as a clearing-house for information on far-right extremists amid mounting criticism its security agencies failed to detect a neo-Nazi terror group for years.

Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said Wednesday the new database will be modeled on a similar registry for Islamic extremists created in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.

He said the government will hold talks on how to "improve cooperation in the future" among the country's 16 state interior and justice ministries.

German states each have a police and domestic intelligence agency _ resulting in a lack of coordination that critics say helped the neo-Nazis to remain undetected between 1998 and last week.

The group is suspected of murdering nine foreigners and a policewoman.