State TV shows video of Kadhafi meeting

TRIPOLI: Libyan state TV on Wednesday showed footage of strongman Moamer Kadhafi in a meeting, the first time he has appeared on television since an air strike that the regime termed an attempt on his life.

State TV said the footage was of a meeting between Kadhafi and eastern tribal dignataries.

A Libyan official told AFP the video that aired late on Wednesday was shot around 7:30 pm (1730 GMT) that day.

The video showed an apparently unharmed Kadhafi, who was wearing sunglasses and dressed in a black robe and hat with a brown sash, greeting the leaders and then holding talks with them seated in a half circle around him.

It is the first new footage of the Libyan strongman shown since an April 30 air strike that the regime said killed Kadhafi's son Seif al-Arab and three of his grandchildren, in "a direct operation to assassinate the leader of this country." (AFP)