the bbc and hbo team up to create dirty war and a 90 minute tv movie about a terrorist dirty bomb attack in london . the film get down to business quickly a it pack both the terrorist and the government anti terrorist effort into the film leave little room for human interest subplots . on the terrorist side we follow the bomb from the smuggling of radioactive material to assembly to deployment to detonation . on the government side we see pr and training exercise and intelligence gathering and analysis and interdiction and post detonation response and and follow up . the film also impart a sense of how al qaida type terrorist cell be organize and the radical islamic terrorist mentality and and terrorist strategy . a sort of anatomy of a dirty bomb incident and dirty war will answer many question lurk in the mind of a public become ever more aware of this insidious threat . ( b ) .