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Terror attacks close to home for Scottish hospital

Healthcare Security Weekly, July 9, 2007

A bomb disposal unit on July 1 carried out a controlled explosion at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Glasgow, where one of two men arrested in the terrorist attack at the Glasgow International Airport was receiving medical treatment under armed police guard, according to news reports.

The bomb unit blew up a car, which was linked to the attack at the airport, in the hospital's parking lot. In the airport attack, two men drove a burning Jeep into the terminal on June 30. The driver of the Jeep was critically injured from his burns. Shortly after he was admitted to the hospital, police confiscated a suspicious item from his body and called for a partial evacuation of the hospital. Police later said the device was not believed to be an explosive.

News reports said British police are holding doctors from Iraq and Jordan among suspects detained after the airport attack and two failed car bombings in central London.

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