Most Americans are worried the nation will be targeted by Islamic militants for a terrorist attack like the deadly siege on a Paris satirical magazine, a new poll shows.
The Washington Examiner, which published results of the privately commissioned McLaughlin & Associates survey, reports that 74.2 percent of likely voters say they fear terrorists affiliated with the Islamic State will mount a "catastrophic" strike on U.S. targets.
They also think the terrorists will go beyond the French assault on Charlie Hebdo magazine, which killed 12 people, including two police officers, using chemical or biological weapons.
The poll also found that just over 72 percent of those surveyed expect an attack by ISIS on Israel.
The poll was commissioned by
"The Third Target" author Joel Rosenberg, the Washington Examiner reports.
"The Paris attack is a horrible reminder that we can't get complacent about radical Islam generally or ISIS specifically," Rosenberg told the newspaper. Rosenberg's latest book is about the Islamic State threat, the Examiner reports.
The magazine's editors and cartoonists were targeted by Islamic gunmen early Wednesday afternoon in the horrific attack.
"My original plan was to write a novel that would warn people that ISIS was going to become a serious threat to the [United States], Israel and our Arab allies over the next five years or so," he told the Washington Examiner.
"But events have moved much faster that I realized. When I started, President [Barack] Obama was calling ISIS a 'JV' team. Now they are creating genocidal conditions in Syria and Iraq."