Key Points
Aditya Verma, a British-Indian student, can hardly be faulted for thinking two F-18s flanking his flight to Menorca in Spain were holding an exercise in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war..
Pre-boarding, he joked with buddies on Snapchat of an intent to blow up the plane as a Taliban member..
The context of his jest was his appearance, but eavesdropping security authorities in the UK were not amused; they alerted the Spanish, who scrambled those jets..
A police search of his phone revealed research of clashes between India and Pakistan and potential Islamic State attacks in the region, but nothing to link him with jihadist radicalism..
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