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                Daughter Defends American Woman Killed in Syria

   The daughter of an American woman killed in fighting in Syria insists
   her mother was "not a terrorist."
   The body of Nicole Lynn Mansfield, a single mother from the midwestern
   city of Flint, Michigan, was recovered this week near the Syrian city
   of Idlib. Mansfield`s body was found alongside that of a British Muslim
   man.
   Syrian state media on Friday showed footage of a dead woman clad in a
   hijab and pictures of Mansfield`s passport and driver`s license. The
   report said she was part of an extremist rebel group caught in an
   ambush.
   Mansfield`s daughter, Triana Lynn Mansfield, 18, posted a defense of
   her mother on her Facebook page, insisting that her mother was "just a
   regular American woman who was misguided."
   The woman`s family says they have no idea what she was doing in Syria.
   Mansfield converted to Islam while in her 20s and married a Muslim
   immigrant. The family says they never met the man and the two
   eventually divorced.
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