Daily Star: Sadr offers to mediate Beirut-Damascus issue

The Lebanese Daily Star reported that Iraqi religious and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr is in Lebanon for about one week visit to Syria and Lebanon(corrected), and will meet with the president and various groups, and expressed will to help ease Syria-Lebanon tensions.

The Daily Star quoted him saying that it is an Iraqi demand, and not a US demand, to have a nonsectarian based government in Iraq.