CAIRO, Nov. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- The al-Qaida terror network in Iraq threatened on Friday to mount more attacks on foreign diplomats ifthey fail to heed the warning and leave the country, according toan Internet statement.

    "We are renewing our warning to all the diplomats who are stillstaying in Baghdad and have not realized the consequences of goingagainst our will," said the statement, posted on a web site of tenused by the al-Qaida's group in Iraq.

    The statement also said the group would not differentiate between high-ranking diplomats and the lowest-level in tracking them down and carrying out merciless revenge.The authenticity of the statement, allegedly signed by the spokesman of the al-Qaida group in Iraq, cannot be immediately verified.

    The Friday warning came after another Internet statement saidon Thursday that Iraq's al-Qaida would kill two Moroccan embassy employees, who were kidnapped last month.

    The al-Qaida network has masterminded and carried out some ofthe most gruesome kidnappings and killings in Iraq.It has vowed to kill all the foreign diplomats in Iraq,accusing them of being "collaborators" with the US-backed new Iraqi government.

    Earlier this year, two Algerian diplomats and a top Egyptian envoy to Iraq were kidnapped and killed by the group in two separate incidents. Enditem