| 1 | AUGUSTA, Ga. |
| 2 | - 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. |
| 3 | 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." |
| 4 | Davis pleaded guilty in May to charges that he sought to join a known terrorist group. |
| 5 | His attorney told the judge Davis converted to Islam a decade ago while in prison for cocaine trafficking. |
| 6 | Davis says he was later "brainwashed" by propaganda of radical Muslims. |
| 7 | Prosecutors say Davis wrote online that he wanted "to kill Zionists and bring down Israel and the United States of America." |