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Samir Khan, al-Qaida figure, grew up on Long Island

An al-Qaida propagandist killed last week by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen went to high school on Long Island, where classmates remember his evolution to an anti-American radical.

Samir Khan, 25, who published the Web-based extremist magazine Inspire, was about 7 years old when he came to the United States. He lived in Westbury for about a decade, attending W.T. Clarke High School in the East...

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