In early 2012, the Guardian obtained a cache of 3,000 emails that showed the private correspondence of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma, shedding light on their preoccupations during the Syrian army's siege of Homs and the suppression of the uprising. To provide a clearer understanding of the Assad Family's large email network, the Daily Telegraph used Gephi, an open source tool for network graphs, to visualize the data from the leaked emails. The resulting "social network map" shows the 250 names and email addresses mentioned in the emails and the frequency of their contact with the couple. For example, in the emails, Asma al-Assad appears to spend a lot of time shopping online or arranging for luxury goods to be shipped and delivered from the United Kingdom while the bloody crackdown continues. The map reflects her behavior as a large number of her emails comes from shopping companies.