The Information Clearing House has made the video and a transcript of its content available: "A Message from the 'Iraq Resistance.'" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7468.htm

The messenger's delivery is clear and effective, and the tone is very confident. And the message is politically sophisticated:

Know that by helping the Iraqi people you are helping yourselves, for tomorrow may bring the same destruction to you.

In helping the Iraqi people does not mean dealing for the Americans for a few contracts here and there. You must continue to isolate their strategy.

This conflict is no longer considered a localized war. Nor can the world remain hostage to the never-ending and regenerated fear that the American people suffer from in general.

We will pin them here in Iraq to drain their resources, manpower, and their will to fight. We will make them spend as much as they steal, if not more.

We will disrupt, then halt the flow of our stolen oil, thus, rendering their plans useless. ("A Message from the 'Iraq Resistance'")

They value the contribution of anti-war movements abroad and ask us to "form a world wide front against war and sanctions":

We thank all those, including those of Britain and the U.S., who took to the streets in protest against this war and against Globalism. We also thank France, Germany and other states for their position, which least to say are considered wise and balanced, till now.

Today, we call on you again.

We do not require arms or fighters, for we have plenty.

We ask you to form a world wide front against war and sanctions. A front that is governed by the wise and knowing. A front that will bring reform and order. New institutions that would replace the now corrupt.

Stop using the U.S. dollar, use the Euro or a basket of currencies. Reduce or halt your consumption of British and U.S. products. Put an end to Zionism before it ends the world. Educate those in doubt of the true nature of this conflict and do not believe their media for their casualties are far higher than they admit. ("A Message from the 'Iraq Resistance'")

The message is said to come from "the media platoon of the Islamic Jihad Army" and dated December 10, 2004.

If all Iraqi resistance fighters can unite behind a message like this one and stick to it in deed as well as rhetoric, it will be a political body blow against not only the George W. Bush administration but liberal imperialists who, like Lakshmi Chaudhry (Senior Editor of AlterNet), claim to speak for the so-called "silent majority" of Iraqis and urge "our European counterparts to reverse their resistance and demand that their governments send troops to join a multinational force in Iraq" (as Tom Hayden paraphrases their position in his surprisingly sharp critical response [January 13, 2005] to Chaudhry's article "Rethinking Iraq" [January 6, 2005]). At least, the video message gives us hope that we may see an emergence of a national liberation front in Iraq sooner than many of us thought we would.