No wonder that the news about questioning the former Iraqi Defense Minister Hashim Sultan is not reported by the media except on the Saudi al-watan, what Sultan revealed is total embarrassment for Maliki:
Sultan was questioned about how many missiles Iraq possessed during the first Gulf-war and why the papers says there were 137 missile, Sultan answered these papers are not official the real number of the missiles Iraq possessed during the 1991 war are 110.
The question about if the army formed an assassination unite to execute the rebellions in 1991, Sultan said that Saddam ordered to arm the tribes [Shiite] in the south, one of the tribes was Bani Malik which is Maliki’s tribe.
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