Number of IS 新採用するs from US dropped: 連邦検察局 長,指導者

The number of US 新採用するs trying to join the Islamic 明言する/公表する 極端論者 group has 拒絶する/低下するd, 連邦検察局 Director James Comey told the US 議会 Wednesday.

But he said there could be 多重の explanations for the 減少(する)-off, 含むing new 新採用するs leaving the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs undetected.

"Just in the last few months, we are seeing より小数の people 試みる/企てる to travel to join ISIL in Syria," Comey told the House of 代表者/国会議員's 母国 安全 委員会, using an 代案/選択肢 指名する for the jihadist group.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee about worldwide threats to the United States on O...

連邦の Bureau of 調査 Director James Comey 証言するs before the House 母国 安全 委員会 about 世界的な 脅しs to the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs on October 21, 2015 in Washington, DC ?半導体素子 Somodevilla (Getty/AFP )

"We have seen six in the last three and a half months. We were seeing nine a month in all the months before that."

But the 長,率いる of the 連邦の Bureau of 調査 said he didn't "know what to make of that."

"One 可能性 is we are not seeing it the way we were before, (and) they are still going," he said, 追加するing that it was also possible "成果/努力s to lock people up and punish them" or 協同組合 成果/努力s with Turkish and other countries are making a difference.

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