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This is scary.

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.

The big question is how in the world the terrorists got a copy of her drivers' license. The only possibility mentioned in the story is her relationship with a Kuwaiti man back in the eighties, but her last contact with him was over 20 years ago. Seems unlikely that he'd have a copy of her drivers' license.