Baghdad: Diplomats in Baghdad are under threat of the al-Qaeda attack. The report was quoted on an Islamic website.
It was posted one day after the al-Qaeda group announced it had condemned two Moroccan embassy employees to death.
"We are renewing our threat to those so-called diplomatic missions who have insisted on staying in Baghdad and have not yet realised the repercussions of such a challenge to the will of the Mujahedeen," the statement said.
The latest al-Qaeda statement appeared as majority Shiites began the three-day religious holiday of Eid ul-Fitr.
On Friday, Sunni-led insurgents killed 11 Iraqi security forces and wounded 14 in two separate attacks, as Shiites celebrated Eid ul Fitr.
The US military claimed that it has killed five senior al-Qaeda during an air strike on last Saturday in Husaybah near the Syrian border.
Friday's worst attack by insurgents occurred at an Iraqi police checkpoint in Buhriz, 55 km north of Baghdad.
The militants fired mortar rounds, then arrived in eight cars and opened fire, a police officer said.
At least six policemen were killed and 10 wounded in the ensuing gun battle, and it was not immediately known if any militants were hurt, police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
In Tuz Khormato, 210 km north of Baghdad, a roadside bomb hit an Iraqi convoy, killing five police commandos working with Iraq's Interior Ministry and wounding four others.
On the outskirts of the Capital, near the US-run Abu Ghraib detention centre, insurgents fired a mortar round that missed an American base but hit a village home, killing three, a sources said.
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