'I am an American' says man sentenced to prison for trying to join ISIS
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Georgia man who wrote that he was "ready for Jihad" before booking a flight overseas to join the Islamic State group has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
Despite menacing social media postings read by prosecutors in court Tuesday, 38-year-old Leon Nathan Davis III of Augusta sobbed as he told the judge: "I love my country and I am an American."
Davis pleaded guilty in May to charges that he sought to join a known terrorist group. His attorney told the judge Davis converted to Islam a decade ago while in prison for cocaine trafficking. Davis says he was later "brainwashed" by propaganda of radical Muslims.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Prosecutors say Davis wrote online that he wanted "to kill Zionists and bring down Israel and the United States of America."