A source close to Muqtada al-Sadr, the Iraqi Shia leader, says Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani has pledged to personally intervene to resolve the crisis in neighboring Bahrain, according to a report in Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.

The link is in Arabic, but for English readers, here’s a (somewhat poor) Google translation.

UPDATE: You can also read the Bloomberg story.

(via @HMA26)