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Wasteland. that would mean that people that want to annihilate us live 9 miles away from us looking down upon us. pete: the wartime mentality that started in the late 60s protect the high ground, is shifted slightly. now, instead of protecting it with artillery they are protecting it with construction trucks and cement mixers. ♪ pete: welcome to [inaudible], construction has been ongoing for 36 years but in 1983 the first settlers arrived here. today there are 16000 in a bustling city. forget ...

Now they doubled down with a vengeance. pouring tanks and troops and heavy armor back into budapest and brutally, and all too effectively, put down the resistance. help never came. >> vilmos: i mean this, this is a place where a lot of things happened, used to be the avh headquarters. i never shot this before so, this is probably the first time im going to get this building shot. >> anthony: so this was the internal secret police. so, if someone came at night -- >> vilmos: yes. >> anthony: -- wi...

>> we had one incident where two frenchmen saw a tank being lifted by two men and moved. they turned to me, and they said, how can two men lift a tank? so i said, "you know, the americans are very strong," and that seemed to satisfy them. >> reporter: they created illusions to draw the nazi army into the wrong place, to stop them from attacking. their last operation in the final weeks of the war, a crucial battle in germany, with thousands of lives at stake, using every last trick they had. >> w...

Just as lethal long into the future >> reporter: they are the deadly leftovers from the arab-israeli war, and decades of conflict rsat followed. >> for the last 60 years nearly, its been impossible to reach the churches, so weve worked with the christian denominations, the israeli authorities and the palestinians to get permission to start work to clear all the explosive hazards from around the churches. e reporter: its an unlikely flam effort in a region still divided by conflict. the over $1-m...

Western access to berlin is firm. >> is khrushchev entirely convinced that our words have meaning? if he is not, what can we do short of war to convince him that they do? >> 1500 american soldiers arrived in west berlin after a 110-mile road trip across east germany. soviet person radio described the arrival of additional american forces as a challenging military act. >> the berliners know that western strength is their only protection. >> there are all sorts of people who say send the tanks in,...

If he is not, what can we do short of war to convince him that they do? >> 1500 american soldiers arrived in west berlin after a 110-mile road trip across east germany. soviet person radio described the arrival of additional american forces as a challenging military act. >> the berliners know that western strength is their only protection. >> there are all sorts of people who say send the tanks in, knock the damn wall down. and kennedy, no. he understands this solves his problem. will khrushchev...

If he is not, what can we do short of war to convince him that they do? >> 1,600 american soldiers arrived in west berlin after a 110-mile road trip across east germany. soviet person radio described the arrival of additional american forces as a challenging military act. >> the berliners know that western strength is their only protection. >> there are all sorts of people who say send the tanks in, knock the damn wall down. and kennedy, no. he understands this solves his problem. will khrushche...

Osamas family was well-known in saudi arabia. his fathers career was the stuff of legend. >> the bin ladens were almost a storybook success. >> reporter: in saudi arabia, the bin laden name is everywhere. its a vast empire with humble beginnings. the family patriarch, mohammed, seen here in rare photographs, rose from a menial laborer to head one of the largest and most successful construction companies in the middle east. >> he built the airport. he built virtually everything that was standing ...

Sherman tanks so light they could pick them up. the nazis were buying that they were real? >> we hoped so. >> reporter: they became known as a ghost army. a thousand artists, designers and audio technicians using sights and sounds to dupe the enemy. did you actually take incoming? >> we took fire, we had casualties. there werent many, but we had casualties. >> reporter: they were classified for more than half a century. to this day little is known about these artist worriers but filmmaker rick b...

He took that day was to protect his fellow marines. wuterich was leading a squad through a neighborhood in the hostile town of haditha. a bomb exploded, killing one of wuterichs marines, lance corporal miguel terrazas, and wounding two others. while searching for the bomber, the marines killed five unarmed men who drove up in a car, then they went house to house. in his only interview, on "60 minutes" in 2007, wuterich told us the marines rolled grenades into rooms when they heard rustling behin...