British Spy On Hunting Bin Laden & Meeting Saddam Hussein | Minutes With
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- In this episode of Minutes With, we sat down with former spy Paul Hughes who gives us an insight into his varied life tracking terrorists in the Middle East and on counter-terror operations in the UK. We hear about his dangerous mission to find Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan after 9/11. Paul explains the tactics used by terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and the Taliban hiding in the mountains and his terrifying experience of coming face to face with Saddam Hussein.
00:00 - 00:25 - Intro
00:25 - 03:15 - Joining The Forces
03:15 - 05:07 - Finding bin Laden
05:07 - 07:40 - Hunting For Terrorists
07:40 - 09:55 - The Dangers
09:55 - 11:20 - Rules of Engagement
11:20 - 14:30 - Meeting Saddam Hussein
14:30 - 17:21 - Counter-Terror Ops
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Thank you to Paul Hughes for taking part in this episode.
Thank you for putting out all these interesting interviews! However I don't think I'm the only one who would love them to be much longer. Great stuff as always LADbible 👌
Thanks Paul👍
You've named the best spy in Britain so definitely put his address
Please don't ask a soldier if they've k1lled someone. It's not something they want to do and they most likely think about it a lot. Just my opinion. Love the Minutes interviews
@@icyblueeyes11 Agreed and very disrespectful.
He’s 55 years old?! Looks about 30 😂
He’s not 55 or else he’s had the hair done one of the two 🤣🤣
@mrsugar2352 he literally refers to his age. Ironic that you are watching a video on "intelligence"
Yo fr
30?😂 maybe 40 but now way 30
14:39 - he signed till 55 and he’s only a few months off that
Saddam was the bad guy who kept all the other bad guys in check, i think in some ways knowing what's going on now, they would have kept him alive.
Exactly this 👍. So so true
They got rid of one Saddam, and created a thousand. No remorse though, money is money.
Maybe - but who knews ?
Exactly. that area if the world has and always be unstable.
Glad someone had common sense in the comments. Also him and Gadafi also wanted the gold standard to remain but the US had other ideas, wonder where all the gold those countries had is now? 🤔
Comes across as a really genuine and fascinating guy.
I absolutely loved this guy - he has the gift of the gab, answering questions without actually giving anything sensitive away ... thank you Sir ❤
Great insight,good watch
Great interview. More like this please 😊
Speaks like a teacher telling you story what a cool bloke
What a chill guy!
Fascinating bloke with a fascinating story. Thanks for your service, and others like you.
thanks for your service.
Lovin this
Learn Pashto in 3 to 6 months? Written and spoken? Kudos!!
I call bullshit
@@benhallo1553There being intensive language training programmes for military personnel is well documented. Especially for someone who’s already fluent in other languages. If he speaks Welsh, he’s likely to have a natural aptitude for it - cos that language is impenetrable
@@Steaminlidz he speaks welsh because he grew up in wales. I’m self taught in German and basically did an immersion experience studying abroad. That was hard enough. There is no way he could have learned a non European language to a good level in 6 months. We’ll never say never, but I am incredibly skeptical
@@Steaminlidzapparently our guy Ben here needs to improve his English comprehensive skills since well documented would mean he wud have to do some research. Then he wont be able to call bs on everything like the peog
@@benhallo1553 your inability does not apply to others
Great insight and excellent stories.
""Oh, you're a spy then" hahaha.
Granddad was probably really proud.
Cut from the same cloth is what I'm guessing...
Loved Grandad's quip...
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Top interview with a very capable operator. Many thanks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Absolutely fascinating!!
Voice and physical features brought to mind brian blessed. What a humble and lovely guy, unless you're a baddie. It's interesting that he said hard to stop a lone wolf attack and what happened with the sword attack.
Solid interview.
Cool dude.
Wild. Awesome. 🤠
Dude's intense!
The callout definitions are bemusing; I guess time flies and these things aren't commonly known anymore.
An exceptionally intelligent man.
There are amazing people between us
Interesting guy..
excellent vid
His story about his grandad and the card killed me🤣🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant! Paul is such an interesting person - engaging, intelligent and easy to talk to. Well Done for getting him in!
That comment about his grandfather was so funny
You can't pull the wool over Grandad's eyes.
Aye :)
love this man - very cool
As an Iraqi, this was an interesting interview to watch.
Why have you stopped putting these on Spotify?
Take care
11:38 captured? He was killed.
Simply wow
He is delightful, he is going to be an even more delightful old guy in the corner of a pub someday. I wonder how the armed forces of modern countries feel about pretty anyone who served these days making a youtube channel or doing podcasts, interviews like these? His description of the vibe of Saddam is pretty much word for word of Chapelle meeting OJ haha.
A fellow Welshman 👍🏻🥃🍻
What a fascinating character. Imagine the stories he's not allowed to tell us!
Wait a second, I recognise this chap. He was with Des Powell in National Army Museum at a Damien Lewis chat. I took the boy whose heading to RM, the boy casually asked Paul, "What's your story?", "If I told you, I'd have to kill you."
How we laughed. Quietly, to ourselves. Outside. In the car. Breaking the speed limit. Away. He's a big chap.
LOVE this accent
this guys was on The TV show hunted
This man is an absolute legend and thank you for your bravery and service. But IMHO he gave too many secrets away.
he gave away no secrets, he would have to ask permission from his bosses to come on, he would have been briefed on what he can and cant say and then this would have been reviewed before it was allowed to be aired - this would have been HEAVILY edited :)
He gave away no operational information, places, names, real names or identities, no real dates just perfectly spoke without giving away details… what secrets did you learn?
A full badged member of the Royal Airforce! 😅 deary me!
What does it it mean to be full badged?
Thank god for our people like him ! Women and men.
I feel my manliness being compromised by just listening to this absolute unit! Top bloke 👍👍
Being compromised? So your saying u are being turned on by his manliness,and alpha male persona? 🤔 Bro you might want to word ur comments better😅
Remember, this is him reading out loud what the envelope they gave him when he left says
not necessarily
Yep, he knows that he is bound by the Official Secrets Act. He’s smart enough to be able to put into words enough to make it sound interesting without getting anywhere near to stepping over the line. There’s no point getting hauled before a court over an interview with Lad Bible.
Tell me thats not Tormund Giantbane 😭
Just a grizzled war veteran with amazing insights.
Perfect answer...
"...how many people we saved..."
Consumate professional...
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St. Athens made me want to join the airforce. When i was told id never fly because of my eyesight, I gave uo the idea.
Also lead singer of queens of the Stone Age
This man sounds just like Michael Bisping
Given the avsolute numbers areiving on our sgore each year, i cant say i feel reassured by this guys closing comments.
Amazing how he barely blinks
Drugs
@@SmittyWall😩🦍
@@user-sz8km9dy5vI'm not a local GP, nor a "Terrorist Hunter" words would be helpful
@@SmittyWall 🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🫵🏿
@@user-sz8km9dy5vnope again, words please
How to share stories in ladbible?
Maybe contact Ladbible with your story pal
I'm sure I just read some Positive comments that Vanished!!
Please write a book!!
This guy is probably the realest mf, he's come tracked down and come face to face with some of the most violent people in the world, absolute badass
It wasn't that long ago that ISIS attacked the Adrianna Grande concert.
That feeling of Evil when he met Saddam... I had the exact feeling when they streamed his hanging. I turned it off immediately.
And after the US and UK ran away recently leaving everything behind there are even more weapons.
They handed control to Afghan forces after 20 years of training them
Intelligence of a bowl of jelly 😂😂😂
@@rikkivet3407 And they were running away too
@@suprarcjpop545 literally had power for 20 years Taliban only got power once the Afghan army surrendered
@@rikkivet3407 and the Taliban walked back in when the west upped and left , meaning that thousands of those very brave loyal Afgans who had assisted the west , were hung out too dry, every man for themself, murdered them and their families as traitors taking all the weapons....leaving the region in a far more unstable place, than it was before we went on that folly... and its cost billion of $£ / Euro`s...100`s of thousand dead on all sides .all for nowt...#sameasiteverwas
Pinch of salt needed for this one. RAF going outide the airfield fence line? Lightning? Nah hes blahing.
Don't write the RAF off just because of a badge.
@@martinaddison6244 not writing them off. Just they dont generally do what this chap said he got up to.
He looks/sounds like the guy who was used as a face model/voice actor for Ghost in CoD 😂 #therealspook 👻
Imagine being spurs in by Gerald butler
Lyneham is not "just outside Cardiff" what a weapon 🤣🤣🤣
St Athan, not Lyneham.
@@welshqmu pretty sure he said lyneham, I know where both are 👍
Thank you for your service 🙏🏻
My dad gave me some old old money from one of saddams from one of his palaces in Iraq from back in the early 2,000s. He is/was in SOF. I wanted to follow his foot steps but I was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 17. So thay got nixed.
Do you still have the money ?
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How
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Thanks to Mrs Maria Davis.
She's a licensed broker here in the states
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Oil and gold
I am so confused by the accent 🏴 🇺🇸 🤣
It’s true 😂
Lad 🏴
I wish the interviewers would stop asking "did you kill anybody?" You could see the look on his face when he heard the question. Maybe he doesn't want to think about it?
My full family were in the armed forces, father REMI, grandfather royal highland fusiliers, mother navy, uncles airforce, I was told from a young age I was going into the armed forces, my grandfather passed away on Xmas eve when I was 16 and I rebelled got into the wrong crowd and ended up going the wrong way in life , I wish I could go back and do it all again I’d do it so different, but such is life I need to live with that mistake now
As a uk person it good to know we got people protecting our land 🎉🎉🎉😊
Protecting those at the top interests you mean.
Am I the only one who finds this whole thing a little bit suspicious
Bloater
Is he searching for Rishi Sunak? Or Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu? Surely they are top of his list
Sadam in Germany 🇩🇪 ,, auto come out en meet you deffenetly
Granted Saddam was a terrifying man, but when he was executed, Iraq fell under sharia law and is the worst it's ever been. When Saddam was in control, Iraq was a vibrant place and there was order. It's now fallen into chaos.
Well Said.
I know two guys from that country that said things were fine under Sadam.
And they had to leave the country after as it’s a MESS
@@winstoncoolidge1644It's what us British do best, that, drawing lines on maps and separating countries, pillaging gold and oil who said the Empire was dead!😡😡
Saddams sons would have been next in line and they would have not been so 'civil' as saddam.
@@samiecarr1885I'm so glad I'm just that bit older than you, that I wasn't taught to hate myself and my country, like you were.
@@ScottyDnB Oh yeah. If Saddam hadn't been executed and he passed the reign over to Uday (or died and Uday inherited it) Iraq would have fallen into chaos in a very different way, it may not have been sharia law, but I'm thinking Joffrey from game of thrones, and Uday would have actually been more of a geniune threat than ever Saddam was and I know that is a bold statement to make.
So it turns out Saddam was right to worry that the weapons inspectors were spys hahaha.
Seen this guy on Dodge’s podcast and he says pretty much the same.
Good interview. Good guy. But the same info
Obsessed
@@iNS4N3xixSN1P3R Nah, not obsessed, just bored and he happened to come up twice on TH-cam
@@SeanAEHegarty1984hit a nerve
@@user-sz8km9dy5v no, just being polite and responding to the comment
lol a British person calling someone else evil and the devil is hilarious
And what country do you reside in ?
Is it just me or he does sound like someone who’s doing an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression?
I’m hearing lots of different accents from lots of different place’s.
Europe isn't ready
How long was he on UN team Iraq ?
He must of been so scared when Saddam walked in, just can’t admit it 😂
''If I was the target they wouldn't drop a hellfire missile because you guys are here too''
Israel should really take some notes
I was looking for this comment, glad someone else has the same thought as myself
These interviewers should be told (if not immediately obvious already, as a manner of respect), under no circumstances should you be asking how many people a man has killed. You might think it wins column inches, but just have a bit of a regard for what that question really means. To the interviewer, it clearly means Jack shit.
“Rules of engagement are strictly adhered to”
Israel: No understand
Don't believe what the press say. Hammas are the thugs here. Using hospitals as a human shield is the tip of their depravity
@@peanuts2105go back to sleep 🤣 🫏
I did the Pashto language test at chicksands.
No offence- there are lots of people who 'nearly joined the army'.
Interesting accent. At times I hear Scottish?
Welsh 👍
You shouldn’t of been there in the first place…..killed over one million people……our brave soldiers die for nothing
Well Said
“Osama bin Laden was captured in 2011 by US Navy SEALS”
No, but he did capture two rounds from an HK416 to the head.
He captured two towers before that
@@husnihassan9971or did he?
Interesting watching these former military members play mental gymnastics to justify their part in a totally illegal war.
Who smells that?? Yet shows his face, come on really?? What a spy, nobody will ever know who he is
What does it matter who knows? It's like the retired SAS operatives giving interviews
You think they weren't in the regiment because they share their identity freely?
@theophrastusbombastus1359 oh sorry it doesn't matter as a person of real importance always ends up on ladbible, I like you and I think we should invade Iran??
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Soooo, you're saying 9/11 not inside job😏
his name isnt paul hughes....
DON'T BELIEVE A WORD THIS MAN JUST SAID.
Why?
Why?
You've got 2 subscribers and no posts. 😂. What do you do???
No content. Yeah. Good one. 💪