Women Scorned, Courted by Colonel of Love

June 12 -- — U.S. Army Col. Kassem Saleh seemed like a dream — a Taliban-battling soldier with the soul of a poet who wrote intoxicating love letters home.

The trouble was, he was doing a lot of writing. Saleh was allegedly romancing and even proposing to some 50 women across the United States and Canada whom he had met through online dating sites including www.Christiansingles.com, Match.com and tallpersonals.com. Worse still, he is reportedly married.

''You are my world, my life, my love and my universe," Saleh allegedly wrote in one cyber love note.

Another woman said she received this e-mail from Saleh:

"You and the thought of you have created a desire so deep within my soul that I cannot fathom a time I will ever be without you."

The women found out about the multiple proposals after an Internet news site ran a story about a woman in Washington state who said she was waiting to become Saleh's wartime bride. Soon, calls were pouring into KNDU-TV from other women who said that they were engaged to Saleh.

Romancing the 'Monk Warrior'

Robin Solod, 42, of New York, is one of the women who says she was duped.

Seven months ago, she met Saleh through the www.tallpersonals.com dating site, and they began an online courtship. She felt that Saleh's letters were more romantic than the works of poets William Butler Yeats or Robert Browning, and she soon fell in love, Solod said.

Then, five months ago, the 50-year-old colonel proposed. Solod said yes. Then she read about another of his "fiancées" on the Internet.

"I was crushed … the total deceit, the betrayal," Solod said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America.

Solod said Saleh told her that the reports of his many proposals were false. "Now, this girl from Brooklyn was born at night, but not last night," said Solod in response to Saleh's excuse. She says he never apologized to her.

Some of the women say Saleh claimed to be divorced and called himself the monk warrior because he hadn't had sex in 10 years. Though she was impressed with his action-packed adventures in the military, it was Saleh's flowery words that drew Solod.