Tripoli (ANTARA News/AFP) - Embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi turned up at a Tripoli hotel where many foreign journalists are staying late on Tuesday, clenching his fists in the air in a show of defiance.

He did not immediately respond to questions as he strolled through the lobby of the Rixos Hotel, which was packed with reporters.

Wearing a chocolate brown cloak and his trademark fawn headdress, he gave no sign of the pressure on his four-decade-rule which has seen large swathes of the North African fall into the hands of rebels.

He was accompanied by one of his female bodyguards.
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