Where is Sistani???

River has a new post tonight at Baghdad Burning. I'm not going to copy and paste he vivid descriptions of the situation in Fajulla, click on the above link and read it. She does ask a very good question:

Furthermore, where is Sistani? Why isn't he saying anything about the situation? When the South was being attacked, Sunni clerics everywhere decried the attacks. Where is Sistani now, when people are looking to him for some reaction? The silence is deafening.

Sistani was once thought to be a leader, he has shown little leadership.

Update
Juan Cole has some thoughts on Sistani's inaction.

Sistani has been criticized recently for not speaking out against US attacks on Sunnis in the way he had with regard to Najaf, a Shiite center. Sistani likes to present himself as concerned for the welfare of all Iraqis, not just of his Shiite followers. But he has only called for peace in Fallujah when the fighting is already largely over with. That move will look cynical to a lot of Sunni Arabs.