მოკლედ ეს ამოვქექე სადღაც ეხლა. როცა აფხაზებმა სოხუმს ალყა დაარტყეს თქვეს რომ ბაბუშერადან რაც აფრინდება სამოქალაქო რომც იყოს მაინც ჩამოვაგდებთო და რამდენიმე სამოქალაქო თვითმფრინავი დამიზნებით რომ ჩამოაგდეს ყველამ იცის--ავღანეთში მოჯახედებიც კი არ აკეთებდნენ ამას.

ჰოდა ეხლა ამოვთხარე ეს. აბა ლომებო და ვეფხვებო, ერთი რას იტყვით და მეორე შევუბეროთ ვისაც დრო აქ სომხურ-რუსულ ფორუმებზე

U.S. Journalist Feared Dead In Battle for a Georgian City (New York Times)
http://query. nytimes.com/ gst/fullpage. html?res= 9F0CE6D9153EF933 A0575AC0A9659582 60

Published: September 30, 1993

An American journalist who was a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal is presumed to have been killed in the battle between Georgian troops and separatists for control of a regional capital, The Journal said yesterday.


The reporter, Alexandra Tuttle, 34, is thought to have been killed on Sept. 22, when Abkhazian rebels shot down a Tupelov-134 plane flying from Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, to Sukhumi, the capital of the Abkhazia region. The separatists took control of the city Monday night.


Ms. Tuttle, who lived in Paris, was a regular contributor to the Leisure and Arts Page and the Editorial Page of The Wall Street Journal's European and United States editions for the past three years, on subjects ranging from wars to art history. She has also written for Time magazine and The New York Times.

(Georgia Diary, Thomas Goltz, p 161)

The idea of getting out by air was becoming almost suicidal: Georgian television team approaching Sukhimi in a fishing boat captured YAK-40 getting shot down over the Black Sea, from the sudden plunge from the skies into the water top the assorted bloated corpses, bobbing like buoys in the waves. The next jet to get blasted was a Tupolev154. It has its wheels down, and was maybe even on the ground, when it was hit by a heat-seeking missile and becoming a rolling incinerator for most abroad-including the devil-may-care correspondent from the Wall Street Journal, Alexandra Tuttle and the brother of Alexis Rowell’s translator Nino Ivanishvili. Somebody had also told me that another plane, carrying the entire national basketball team, had crushed beforehand, killing all aboard, although I suspect this was the same aircraft bearing Tuttle.

lexandra Tuttle, The Wall Street Journal, September 22, 1993, Sukhumi

Tuttle, a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, was killed aboard a military aircraft when it was hit by an Abkhazian ground-to-air missile. The plane crashed as the pilot attempted to make an emergency landing in Sukhumi. Tuttle boarded the flight in Tbilisi and was on her way to conduct an interview with Georgian head of state Eduard Shevardnadze.

Committee to Protect Journalists: http://www.cpj. org/deadly/ 1993_list. html