article_snippet.sent: According to the lengthy criminal complaint against Siddiqui and Velentzas,  Siddiqui met Khan sometime in 2006, while Khan was still living in the U.S. and they continued to communicate after Khan moved to Yemen in 2009.
article_snippet.sent: Siddiqui's friend Kahn was born to Pakistani parents in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on December 25, 1989, but spent most of Siddiqui's friend Kahn life growing up in Queens - the same NYC borough where Siddiqui lived.
article_snippet.sent: Other than refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and blaming 9/11 on America, fellow Queens native Samir Khan appeared to be a well-adjusted young man when fellow Queens native Samir Khan attended  W Tresper Clarke High School.
article_snippet.sent: At W Tresper Clarke High School, fellow Queens native Samir Khan wrote for the student newspaper, and participated in cheerleading and the glee club.
article_snippet.sent: In 2004, his family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina where his attended Central Piedmont Community College. 
article_snippet.sent: Five years later, fellow Queens native Samir Khan cut ties with his family and moved to Yemen.