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Harjit Sajjam caught in another lie.

First his statement that our allies were ok with our CF-18's pulled from the mission against ISIS.

And now his claim that he was the architect of Operation Medusa in Afghanistan which lead to the removal of 1500 Taliban fighters from the battlefield.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...eld-boast.html

But now Sajjan seems to have overreached in a war story, telling an audience in New Delhi, India, earlier this week that he was the “architect” of Operation Medusa, the Canadian offensive in 2006 to push out Taliban fighters from the districts around Kandahar.
“On my first deployment to Kandahar in 2006, I was kind of thrown in an unforeseen situation and became the architect of an operation called Operation Medusa, where we removed about 1,500 fighters, Taliban fighters, off the battlefield,” Sajjan said in his speech.
“I was very proud to be on the main assault of the force,” he said in the speech, which can be found on YouTube.

Yet Sajjan’s version of events, first reported by the National Post, stirred anger in military circles from those who thought the former soldier had overstated his role.
One military officer told the Post it was a “bald-faced lie.”

Military historian Jack Granatstein said that Sajjan was a good intelligence officer in Afghanistan who probably provided important information, but added, “That’s probably all you can say.
“He certainly wouldn’t have been the chief planner,” Granatstein said in a phone interview.
“That he would say such a thing in a public address is bizarre.”
Granatstein said the faux pas shouldn’t force Sajjan to resign, but argued it doesn’t help the cause of a minister he said has been weak in his post.
“It’s not going to help him with the military,” Granatstein said.
“He’s not a very strong minister thus far. He hasn’t delivered anything thus far for the (Canadian Forces).
“This is going to make people think he’s a little bit deluded.”