Dawn Perryman, 43, poses with her current Michigan drivers license in Burton, Mich. A photo of what appeared to be her old driver's license showed up on an Islamic Web site along with a claim that she had been captured in southern Iraq and slain.
BURTON -- A woman was shocked to learn Friday that a photo of what appeared to be her old driver's license showed up on an Islamic Web site along with a claim that she had been captured in southern Iraq and slain.
Dawn Perryman, 43, who lives in this community near Flint, found out about the Internet posting after a reporter from The Associated Press called and talked to her husband about the claim.
"It's kind of scary," Perryman, who isn't in the military, said in a telephone interview from her home.
The posting claimed that an American officer named Dawn Marie Stone, which is Perryman's maiden name, was captured about three weeks ago. The claim was accompanied by a photo of the driver's license, which had her maiden name, her birth date and an address in Flint that she previously lived at.
"I have no idea as to how it would get into Iraq," Perryman said.
Perryman said the only link she had to the Middle East was a relationship she had with a man from Kuwait in the 1980s who served in the Kuwaiti military. She said she met him in Texas and he came to Michigan several times to visit her.
"I know he had pictures of me," she said. "I don't think the guy would have had my driver's license."
Perryman said she met the man around 1984, dated for a while and was last in touch with him about 1988, when she married.
"It's pretty strange," said her husband, Henry Perryman.
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