He heard nothing; his warning, he claims, disappeared into a black hole.
"I only wish I had had some access to MI5 [British counter-intelligence]. I probably could have got them in there, before the bombs went off."
Gilbertson's package was addressed to the anti-terrorist squad.
Asked this week about Gilbertson's approach, a spokesman for West Yorkshire police said: "It's going to be almost impossible to trace what happened to a specific item of mail. We don't have an anti-terrorist squad, and there's no way of saying to where it might have gone from the mailroom. ... it's impossible to say whether this made its way into the intelligence system, whether it was discounted as low-level intelligence or whether it was acted upon in some way."
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