Another purported audiotape from Saddam Hussein taunted coalition forces three months after the Iraqi strongman's ouster, as attacks continued against US soldiers and their local allies eager to rebuild the country. The voice on the recordings, played on a Lebanese television station and Arabic satellite station Al-Jazeera, said: "Victory is coming. It is coming, God willing." The voice, which could not immediately be verified, told "Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Shiites, Sunnis, Muslims and Christians" that "your principal mission is to throw out the invaders by uniting your ranks." Saddam's rallying cry to his followers bent on wrecking US reconstruction efforts came as the CIA deemed last Friday's message from the ousted leader, who disappeared after invading coalition troops entered Baghdad on April 9, to be probably authentic. Meanwhile, seven more US soldiers were wounded, according to a US spokesman, in three separate attacks Tuesday, including three in a rocket-propelled grenade strike in the northern city of Kirkuk. In a second attack, on the main highway from Baghdad to the international airport to the southwest, "an improvised explosive device was dropped from a bridge onto a convoy," Corporal Todd Pruden said. "Two soldiers were wounded. One returned to duty and the other is still receiving medical care," he said. In a third incident, a military vehicle struck a landmine in Baghdad. "Two soldiers were wounded and evacuated to a medical facility," he said, adding that the vehicle had been completely destroyed. He did not specify what condition the soldiers were in. The US reconstruction efforts, already stumbling from bombings of Iraq's fuel pipelines and sabotage of its power supply, plus the killing of at least 29 US soldiers in attacks in the past two months, were facing the new threat of Saddam loyalists targeting pro-US Iraqis. Also a military officer in the southern city of Basra said a British soldier was wounded by snipers during a joint patrol with Iraqi police officers at the weekend. "This is the first incident where someone was injured on patrols in this area since the end of hostilities (in Iraq) was declared" on May 1, he said, adding that the soldier was recovering. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Saddam Hussein, AFP