Off topic: I'm glad to see that slimgur is back. I tried using and the website was always offline.

8, Plays into Muslim prophecy that WW3 will occur in Syria. Stoking more fanaticism.

ISIS(caliphate) was also prophecized, as well as the Khorasan group in Afghanistan. Both entities were created by the CIA/Mossad/Saudi Intelligence in order to whip up Islamic prophecy hysteria.

what about them being on the planned oil pipeline's way? I haven't done too much reading about this, but I thought that this was one of the main reasons.