Iraqi resistance fighters attacked a convoy with explosives, killing one American soldier, and shot and killed another in the Iraqi capital on Friday, while a prominent Iraqi cleric urged Iraqis to politically oppose a U.S.-appointed government. The two American deaths Friday brought the total U.S. personnel killed in combat since the March 20 start of the war to 149 - two more than the 1991 Gulf War total. A new audio recording purportedly by Saddam urging Iraqis to continue a "jihad" against U.S. forces is probably authentic, a U.S. intelligence official said Friday. The message aired Thursday, the 35th anniversary of the coup that brought Saddam's Baath Party to power. It was likely recorded recently - a finding that was further evidence Saddam survived the war, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. In Baghdad, a soldier from the U.S. 1st Infantry Division was shot and killed at about 5:30 p.m. Friday, said Corp. Todd Pruden, a spokesman for the military. He gave no other details and the soldier's name was being withheld pending notification of next of kin. The attack on the convoy came Friday afternoon when a bomb was detonated by remote control at a traffic circle near the main bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, a city west of Baghdad, according to Sgt. Amy Abbott, a military spokeswoman. She said a soldier from the 3rd Infantry Division died. U.S. military engineers discovered another bomb in Baghdad but defused it. Shopkeeper Abdul Munin Ali, who was swimming in the Euphrates when he heard the explosion, said he saw four soldiers evacuated three in ambulances and one by helicopter. But a Pentagon spokeswoman said the dead soldier was the only casualty. "America is the enemy of God," a crowd chanted as the servicemen towed away a charred Humvee. The attack was the latest in a wave of anti-American violence in Fallujah, where many residents object to U.S. patrols, saying soldiers ogle Iraqi women and don't respect Iraqi traditions. The Americans withdrew from key Fallujah positions last week, but anger at the Americans remains high. "We support the attacks because they are occupiers and infidels," said Yasser Younis, who works in an ice factory. "They promised us democracy and reconstruction, but they have done nothing." Insurgents also targeted American troops in Baghdad, leaving a 3-foot-long bomb on a highway median in the western part of the city. Army engineers spotted the device and dismantled it. The bomb was built into a large mold for ice blocks and hidden in a white burlap sack, said Lt. Robertrel Sachi of Columbus, Ohio. "It was wired to a remote-controlled doorbell ringer. It had a 100-foot blast radius," he said. Soldiers searched nearby houses but made no arrests. Troops dismantled the bomb's blasting cap and said they would explode it in a remote area. "We blow that here, and we'll shatter every window for blocks around," Sachi said. Several hours later, a large explosion rocked a site in southwestern Baghdad where the military often destroys ammunition. The bomb was found at the same site where an attack on an American convoy Monday killed one soldier and wounded four. Residents said they were afraid. "I'm worried, because my children always walk here," said Ali Mohammed, 31, a guard at a construction site near where the bomb was planted. At a major Sunni mosque in Baghdad, Khateeb (orator) Harith al-Dhari called Friday for the Americans to leave Iraq. Also imams at some Shiite mosques had harsh words for the Americans as well. Al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric who spoke to a crowd that overflowed onto the streets around the mosque in Kufa, said the government is comprised of "nonbelievers" who don't represent the people. "We will not cooperate with the council," he told the crowd. "We will form our own council. Iraq will then have two councils: one of the wrongdoers and one of the righteous." "Zionists!" the crowd chanted. "Zionist council!" later al-Sadr said he would launch a parallel government and draft a constitution in consultation with all the country's Islamic movements. "Eventually, we'll have a referendum separate from the Americans and, God willing, elections separate from the Americans," he said. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Dejected US soldiers stand next to their colleague after he was killed in another attack on a military convoy Wednesday, July 16, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq.(AP Photo/Wally Santana)