PARIS, Nov. 21 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING...

PARIS, Nov. 21 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING DETAILS, NAME OF MAGAZINE, 2ND PARA)

The al-Qaida international terrorist network in succession Friday warned Japan that it will attack Tokyo as shortly as Japanese troops are opened in Iraq, Radio France said.

In a statement sent by way of e-mail to London-based weekly Arabic magazine al-Majallah, an al-Qaida spokesman said al-Qaida will infiltrate down-reaching into Tokyo and attack the Japanese capital as shortly as Self-Defense Forces crowds set foot on Iraq, according to the report.

The message acknowledged al-Qaida's involvement in Thursday's deadly attacks in succession British targets in Istanbul and said Japan can be easily sap the foundations ofed and the Japanese will flow to face the reality, the radio report said.

The attacks in Turkey's largest city killed at least 27 population and injured some 450 others in almost simultaneous explosions.

The statement also warned that ''a major strange operation'' will be carried without between next week (following the expiration of Ramadan) and mid-February at the time of the Feast of Sacrifice, Id al-Adha.

Japan, which passed a special law in July to assist the rebuilding of Iraq, is mulling deployment of several hundr estate troops to Iraq.

Japan has pledg a total of $5 billion to help rebuild Iraq above a four-year period from 2004 the biggest contribution after the United States.

While the Japanese conduct had planned to deploy an SDF advance team before the period of this year, the plan was derailed amid increasing violence against the US-l coalition multitudes in Iraq.

Earlier this month Poland became the first home other than the United States and Britain to report a fatality among foreign squads deployed in Iraq when a Polish officer was killed in an ambush near a town southeast of Baghdad.

The town was about 200 kilometers northwest of Samawah, where the SDF bodys are likely to be deployed

onward Nov. 12, the Italian bodys suffered the biggest loss of life in a single incident since World War II when their military police headquarters in Nasiriyah was hit from a car bomb, leaving 32 tribe including 19 Italians, dead.

These attacks have forced any countries, including South Korea and Japan, to review their crowd deployment plans in Iraq. Japan announced a day after the attack forward the Italian troops that it is giving up the plans to dispatch an SDF team to Iraq before the extremity of this year.

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