An Air Force veteran went off on a disjointed and sometimes tearful tirade during his sentencing hearing yesterday:
A US Air Force vet who became the first American ever to be convicted of attempting to join ISIS prattled on, sometimes tearfully, for nearly 40 minutes Wednesday before a Brooklyn federal judge interrupted him to say he wasn’t the militant’s “psychiatrist” and sentenced him to 35 years behind bars.
He was convicted back in March following his 2015 apprehension in Istanbul. According to his defense attorney, he's mentally ill. Yes, well...anyone who thinks Daesh are cool probably is mentally ill. On the plus side, he'll have plenty of time to recuperate. Also in 2015:
As soon as his cab arrived in an Islamic State safe house in December 2015, his lawyers say, Mohamad Khweis realized he had made a huge mistake.
Then 27, he went from a couch in his parents' Virginia home to Syria in a span of two weeks. Three months later, he made a break for it. He got away from Daesh but was captured by Kurdish forces in Iraq.
Now, as his trial begins this week in federal court in Alexandria, a jury will weigh whether a mistake of that gravity can be forgiven under terrorism laws.
The trial's expected to take a couple of weeks.
Well, you know - we all want to change the world.
