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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Family: Michigan woman, 33, killed in Syria fight
May 30, 2013 - 11:35 PM
Associated Press
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The family of a 33-year-old Michigan woman says the FBI
confirmed Thursday that she was killed in fighting in Syria.
She was identified as Nicole Lynn Mansfield of Flint.
Her cousin, David Speelman of Flint, told The Associated Press that FBI
agents visited family members Thursday and informed them of Mansfield's
death.
FBI Detroit spokesman Simon Shaykhet told the AP he can't comment on the
matter.
A pro-Syrian government news agency said that Mansfield and two others were
fighters for a group opposed to Syria's government and were killed in a
confrontation in Idlib. The report on the circumstances of the deaths could
not immediately be confirmed.
Speelman's mother, Monica Mansfield Speelman, told the Detroit Free Press
that her niece was a convert to Islam who married an Arab immigrant several
years ago but later divorced him. The family was not happy about Mansfield's
conversion to Islam, said Monica Speelman and Mansfield's grandmother,
Carole Mansfield.
Nicole Mansfield was raised as a Baptist and her father was a General Motors
production worker, the family said. She quit high school after becoming
pregnant but later earned her GED, attended community college and worked in
home health care for 10 years, they said.
"She had a heart of gold" but was easily influenced by others, Carole
Mansfield said. "I think she could have been brain washed." | l******g
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