U.S. may use Tomahawks against Syria  The San Diego-based
destroyer Sterett launches a Tomahawk cruise missile during a
successful test fire off Southern California in June 2010.
President Barack Obama is considering a military strike against
Syria to punish President Bashar al-Assad for allegedly allowing
his military to use chemical weapons against civilians during
that country's civil war, which reportedly has claimed more than
100,000 lives.  A BGM-109 model Tomahawk cruise missile.
Raytheon  Such a strike would likely involve the use of Tomahawk
land-attack cruise missiles, one of the most technologically
advanced weapons in the U.S. arsenal. Tomahawks are widely
stocked on American warships, including the type of cruisers,
destroyers and Los Angeles-class submarines that are homeported
in San Diego Bay. Tomahawks also are stocked by Britain's Royal
Navy.  The Nimitz carrier strike group is in the northern
Persian Gulf region. It has been operating with the destroyer
Preble and cruiser Princeton, both w