The Road to Damascus

THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS TURKEY Izmir Incirlik AI Qamishli USS Mahan Aleppo Ar Raqqah Aircraft carrier USSBarry USS Gravely Charles de Gaulle in Toulon can be IRAQ USS Ramage Deir Ezzor brought to action. Hama Latakia CYPRUS SYRIA Homs Free Syrian Army LEBANON O Assad's Regime USS Georgia Ohio USS Florida Submarine Damascus Frigate/Destroyer HMS Illustrious Daraa Aircraft Carrier HMS Westminster HMS Montrose Al-Mafraq Trafalgar class submarin Air Base 300 US Marines Patriot SAUDI ARABIA Missiles ISRAEL ARABIAN SEA JORDAN USS Harry S. Truman EGYPT USS Nimitz US UK FRANCE Four destroyers - Cruise missiles Aircraft carrier USS Gravely, USS Ramage, USS Barry and USS Mahan - in the eastern Mediterranean, could be launched from a Charles de Gaulle British Trafalgar class submarine is currently in Toulon. equipped with cruise missiles The Royal Navy's response force task group - which includes helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious and frigates Cruise missiles could also be launched Raffale and Mirage aircraft can also operate from Al-Dhahra from submarines in the region HMS Montrose and HMS Westminster - airbase in the UAE is in the region on a previously- scheduled deployment Airbases at Incirlik and Izmir in Turkey could be used to carry out strikes Airbase Two aircraft carriers - in Cyprus could also be used USS Nimitz and USS Harry S Truman WHAT ASSAD HAS 4,815+ 1,136 4,235+ Towed Self-Propelled Artillery Pieces Surface to Artillery Pieces Air Missile Launchers 10,885 176 695 Armoured Total Total Aircrafts Fighting Vehicles Aircrafts 168,000 8,000 General Security 10,000 80,000 Syrian Armed Forces Shabiha militiamen National Directorate Defense Force 10,000 D 150 a Iran 5000 50,000 Jaysh al-Sha'bi al-Abbas Hezbollah brigade NO ATTACK OBAMA I am NOT considering any option that would A large anti-submarine ship of the Northern RUSSIA Fleet & a rocket cruiser of the Black Sea Fleet will join the Russian naval forces in the Mediterranean amid the new tension being built 285 entail"boots MP's of British on the ground" Parliament voted against any attack on Syria. any attack without UN Security Council approval would be a "crude violation" of international law. bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23801200+ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23898848 bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23847839 1.9 Million news.yahoo.com/ruSsia-sending-warships-mediterranean-report-082257880.html www.news.com.au/world-news/simple-points-to-help-you-understand-the-syria-confilict/story-fndir2ev-1226705155146 www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/26/syria-analysis/2702319/ (Mapping) gizmodo.com/how-the-us-would-attack-syria-1207548898 joumalistsresource.org/studies/intermational/confilicts/us-military-casualty-statistics-costs-war-iraq-afghanistan-post-911# Syrians have become refugees in neighbouring countries 1 Million of them are children INFOGRAPHIC BY: Infographichef O facebook.com/infographic.chef e twitter.com/Infographichef O pk.linkedin.com/in/infographichef/ Infographichef ww w.inf ographichef.com SOURCES PERSONNEL WAR MACHINES