Flint, Michigan (CNN) -- A few weeks ago, Nicole Mansfield called her daughter in Flint, Michigan. She tried to calm Triana Jones down, but she had bad news. "She said, 'I might not be home in a week, somebody stole my ID,' " Jones recalled of the conversation almost a month ago. "So she wasn't able to come home." This wasn't a minor headache, part of the travail of international travel. Jones thought her mother could be in Syria, fighting alongside rebels in the country's bloody civil war. Nicole Mansfield had converted to Islam several years ago, her daughter told CNN Friday.
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Daughter: Nicole Mansfield converted to Islam years ago, wanted to go to Syria
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Weeks ago daughter got call from mother saying someone in Syria had stolen her ID
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Family says Mansfield is the dead woman in images from Syria; U.S. hasn't confirmed
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"She was just an @placeholder woman who was misguided," Jones said.
"@placeholder was the type of person if she thought that something was wrong somewhere, that she could help repair it," said her aunt.