Possible Clues:

• Conscious it's a manufactured article
• One knows about fighting at the East
• Do you know there's fighting in here
• Alert, conscious of
• Conscious of a conflict beginning to erupt
• Having knowledge of, informed
• Do you know there is fighting over the East?
• Informed of a conflict by mid-September
• How AE might have known to be around for a military occasion
• Do you know there's fighting going on in there?