Venezuelan anti-terrorist police have named Rahaman Alan Hazil Mohammad as the Venezuelan national detained by immigration officers at London's Gatwick airport as he arrived aboard a British Airway flight from Caracas, Thursday, with a live hand grenade in his luggage.

In breaking news: 3:00 VET Sunday -- Rahaman Alan Hazil Mohammad has been charged on three counts, including possession of an explosive device with intent to commit an act of terrorism.  He is scheduled to appear in court in London tomorrow, Monday!

Military Intelligence Directorate (DIM) officers say Mohammed, or Bangladeshi origin, was on their 'sensitive list' after trips logged to Middle East countries unofficially detailed as business trips to Libya, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq.

Although Mohammed had been under DIM surveillance for some time, the security service had not been able to establish any links with Al Qaeda.

Mohammed had established Venezuelan nationality after requisite nationalization procedures in Venezuela where according to VHeadline.com sources he had had permanent address on the paradise island of Margarita. 

This weekend he is in British anti-terrorist police custody at a central London holding facility pending further interrogation.

British security embarrassment is also heightened by the fact that Mohammed and his luggage not only passed through X-ray inspection at Caracas (Simon Bolivar) international airport but also passed through similar security screening on arrival at London Gatwick where a specially heightened security alert had already been operative for several days.

Mohammed would, in fact, have been free to enter the UK with the hand grenade in his baggage if it had not been for an eagle-eyed immigration officer who suspected that the Venezuelan national (Venezuelan nationals are exempt from prior visa requirements) might be a Bangladeshi attempting to enter the UK without permission as an illegal alien.

British anti-terrorist police are already in Caracas to liaise with Venezuelan counterparts and have already inspected procedures at the airport where luggage is checked in specifically by British Airways staff and X-ray checked before being through the loading system to board waiting aircraft.

Specially-trained Venezuelan National Guard (GN) are in overall charge of security at key perimeter points throughout the terminal and around the airport itself, situated on the coast some 15 miles north of Caracas.

• Loading procedures are supervised by INAAM (airport authority) personnel from the terminal itself to the departing aircraft.

US State Department officials have previously claimed that Arab-Islamic groups have operated on Margarita Island for years, due to a large Arab expatriate population working in Venezuela's crucial oil industry.

The same, however, could be said for the Dutch Antilles islands of Curacao and Aruba although they are mostly associated with money-laundering operations and the transit of illegal narcotics from Colombia to drug markets in Holland, Germany etc., by virtue of them being a first-stop inside the European Economic Union.