Written and published Friday September 20th, 8:20pm EST

A number of angles have been cited by U.S. defense authorities that are indicative of Iran supporting proxies in the region, especially in the southwesternly direction of mainland Iran.
Action taken by U.S., respond by sending troops, specifically, to Saudi Arabia, the objective of which is to bolster stability in the region.
The main context is defending Saudi Arabia from air attack projectiles.

Two statements at one time: One, identifying the direction the drones came from might help in getting to the bottom of who exactly is to blame on the drone strike, further details, such as the entire pathway of the drone, from takeoff to finish, would be ideal. Secondly, it is an absurdity to blame Iran without full 100% substantiation, why?,- it is simply contrary to the culture, as a people, as a nation.
Has ever, in the last 75 years, Iran struck Saudi Arabia? At least that the global public is aware of, history books newspapers, TV and media?

What is immediately recognizable, is that pirates in the Gulf region roaming the seas, plausibly, have gained in sophistication, as far as collection of weaponry, parts and materials that could be used for weaponry, and advancing what they build.

What all the sources are of different kinds of metals, polymers, and materials, not limited to mixing compounds from a combination of sources, could not all be listed here. Logic may point to that it may be more convenient for rogue terrorists to access materials closer to the mark of what a terrorist wants, saliently weapons, when they come from other sources of the combat sort. The downfall of regimes such as Saddam Hussein, and Muammar Qhadhafi, in the trickle down ramifications of scrap parts being traded around, changing hands and sold, could eventually land in the hands of vagabond terrorists and pirates.  This is a similar fallout to the evolution of weaponry that is said to have gotten into the hands of terror groups that came to haunt the U.S. after strife in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

The eventuality could be, that pirates and terrorists from no particular country to name, could mimic the weapon building capacity of an established nation, and set the easy to manipulate flight patterns of drones to attempt to mislead as to the source of where it came from.

Natural instincts have bells that toll there, before accepting that there is a situation of an entire established nation outrightly firing a drone on another nation. It really does not matter where the drone landed, an object as such is very close to a declaration of war. A declaration of that sort, especially skipping out so many other steps that build up to that, does not seem to make much sense considering the dynamics in the region.

What concurrently seems to be a logical area to look at, is there was an incident about June 13, 2019, in the Strait of Hormuz area, where a couple of tankers were attacked, and it was difficult to get a clear read on exactly, who did it. This incident around September 15th, 2019, has similarities, -who did it?

Here is a map of the region with some comments:

This past weekend, drones hit the oil facility in Buqayq region of Saudi Arabia.
[There is a story run at https://www.mail.com/news/politics/9396710-trump-us-locked-loaded-response-to-attack-saudis.html#.7518-stage-mostviewed1-4 that in the picture description, seems to have a discrepancy in the spelling of Buqayq, from what most other sources do. It may be a run-off of the AP story at https://www.apnews.com/269744b35e16422fa746b0c1504ceb4f]

Story title, 'Trump: US locked and loaded for response to attack on Saudis'.
It is admirable that Trump is ready to defend Saudi. It is startling that if something in the way of defending takes place, that it might take place. The hope is, that if anything does happen, that it does not happen to a set of people that did not do the drone strike.

Washington Post, longtime renown newspaper, says https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/saudi-tv-channel-fire-at-aramco-facility-no-cause-given/2019/09/13/6f419234-d69e-11e9-8924-1db7dac797fb_story.html, 'Yemen’s Houthi rebels launch drones on 2 big Saudi oil sites'.

   "Since the start of the Saudi-led war, Houthi rebels have been using drones in combat. The first appeared to be off-the-shelf, hobby-kit-style drones. Later, versions nearly identical to Iranian models turned up. Iran denies supplying the Houthis with weapons, although the U.N., the West and Gulf Arab nations say Tehran does."

Where were the drones fired from? Well if they were fired from within Iran or Yemen, the drones would have had to have flown about 350 or 500 miles respectively if from the very edge border of Iran or Yemen. So the drones would have had the capacity to have flown that distance, whereat questions are asked, like, is that really a normal drone flight distance; and, go that distance undetected or unobstructed, very difficult considering flight object recognition abilities.

Far case scenario, there is a lot going on in the region over the past 3 days. How many drone strikes were there, exactly? Where did they land? Who fired the drones? Who built the drones? Where did the materials come from to build the drones? All these need to be answered in the assessment, an obvious angle from the public. There may be many more questions, all while of course, time is involved.

When the well remembered shooting at Columbine High School occurred in April 1999, the suspects that fired shots at the Gilroy Garlic Festival one week ago today, in El Paso, Texas yesterday, and in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio, in recent hours, were either just about to be born, a newborn, or only a a few years old.
About 13 years after the Columbine incident, in December 2012, there was the Sandy Hook shooting.

One other similarity among many, to events in the last several days to events in the last several years, it was a Sunday evening at the Gilroy Garlic Festival when the shots were fired, and on October 1st 2017, at the Harvest Festival, shots were fired, same day of the week, Sunday, and near the same time, for fact, about a 5 hour difference in time, 10:30pm at Harvest, 5:15pm at Gilroy, the evening.  

We have come a long ways.  We have a long way to go.



This is what was written in the 'red box' reserved for extreme emergencies at the top of our HCN webpage on August 4th 2019, for records:

Written and published July 15th 2019 EST

Please be careful not to take what the President said, or 'tweeted' out of proportion nor out of context of what he said.
In today's climate, there may be a buildup of heat and resentment for stances Trump has taken on certain issues, and words used to make statements.
However, it is not advisable to try to take a hangnail, make mountain out of a mole hill, then go running for glory with it, off in some direction and some purpose that has nothing to do what he said. 

To a degree, this is for the purpose of intervening with some knowledge, 'refereeing' slightly.  Let us strive to mitigate inharmonious atmospheres.

So, what will be done here is set forth a few ground rules, and a few facts.

One, even some of the highest learned people that teach or have taught Islam, recently, as in post 1950, and who had African or Arabian or Native, summarily non-fair complexion European stock, in their ancestry, have said very clearly and very forthrightly, those that hate this country, those that work against this country, 'can leave'.  This comment has even been made to their closest of allegiances and students, and even other family members if it applies to them.The point is about hating the country, not the ancestry, not the heritage, not the belief system, not a combination of ethnicity and cultural beliefs.  


It may be that there were comments made whereas there was a coincidental fact that those the comments were reported to have been directed to were 'minorities', or of ethnicity that can for loose description in shortness of words, that is east of the Atlantic and south of Europe.

Concepts about undermining the country go back at least as far as Benedict Arnold.  If it was him, then the comment is applicable.

In the effort to salvage ethnic tensions, there is also a balance that need not be overlooked.  Some comments in terms of the verbiage themselves made about September the 11th, in 2001, horrific events referred to, by referent individuals it applies to, were sedition per se; whether it was actually intended or not.

Question that naturally presents itself, is what proof do you have the comments were racist, if the element of racism was not presented?  It may seem that masses of people swayed to have certain feelings may feel justified in their reaction.  Perhaps what can more safely be said, is that heartstrings may have been tugged a bit, the comment may have rubbed the wrong way a bit, as it may have caused memories of certain racial sayings from eras past to arise in the minds; historically on the hand, there are other sayings and other memories, and in this case, it appears that Trump is laying down the law with austerity, and with a fervor manner is driving home a point that has to do with protecting the country from vulnerabilities that may exist that are difficult to see because of constructs they came in, even, within the government.

Furthermore, the buildup of a collective effort of salvaging emotions hurt from caustic comments, is also concurrent the extreme amount of heat by those that wish to defend this country, especially after September 11th 2001, and do so with their lives they are willing sacrifice, this be no matter what their ancestry is.

It appears that around the closing bell of the business day, maybe just before or just after, not all details put here, an employee opened fire in the Municipal Building on Nimmo Parkway in Virginia Beach.  The result as of about 7:45pm EST, is that 6 persons were injured and about twice as many mortally wounded.  The shooter also a fatality.
The emotional injury to many more, once again as mass shootings have started to plague the US to varying degrees, is a major aspect of the entirety.

Update after 8pm EST, another fatality is added to the count.  This may often happen in mass shootings, as for instance injured persons die while in treatment.

Update June 8, 2019, referent employee/suspect status may be more accurately described as recent employee/suspect 


Initially written and published about 7:45pm EST