In what is purported to be his last known wartime speech - a video never before televised - Saddam Hussein appears exhausted, at times confused and seemingly resigned to defeat, but he tells Iraqis that God, somehow, will help them expel the American-British occupiers.
"The faithful will be victorious over the sinners, regardless of the duration of the struggle and the forms it might take," Saddam says.
With patience, the "ordeal" can be overcome, he says, and the invaders driven from Iraq.
The videotape, bearing a presidential stamp, was obtained by Associated Press Television News from a former employee of the Iraqi satellite television channel which, under the regime, was responsible for filming and distributing official presidential video.
The employee said it was made on April 9th, the day American troops streamed into central Baghdad and pulled down a towering Saddam statue.
There was no way to authenticate that the tape was made on that day. Nor could it be immediately proven that the speaker on the tape was Saddam - though Iraqis who watched and listened to the leader for decades believed it was him.
An audiotape of the address was obtained and aired April 18th by Abu Dhabi television, which said it also was told the speech was delivered April 9th.
At the same time, Abu Dhabi television also broadcast a videotape, also said to have been made on April 9th, showing Saddam in the midst of an enthusiastic crowd in the Baghdad district of Azamiyah, a few miles north of the area occupied by US troops that day.
AP