Background
Ganser was born in Lugano, Switzerland and was Senior Researcher at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Center for Security Studies.
historian writer historian of modern age
Ganser was born in Lugano, Switzerland and was Senior Researcher at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Center for Security Studies.
University of Basel; University of Amsterdam.
He wrote his dissertation on secret armies run by North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Europe (eg see Operation Gladio) and has done research questioning the authenticity of the official United States report on the September 11 attacks. He was president (2006–2012) of the Swiss branch of the "Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas" (ASPO), and teaches History and Future of Energy Systems at the University of Saint Gallen. International contemporary history since 1945
Secret warfare and geostrategy
Secret services and special forces units
Peak oil and resource wars
Globalization and human rights
Ganser wrote a chapter in David Ray Griffin"s book 9/11 & American Empire.
Ganser argues that all three versions – the "surprise" theory that is the official version, as well as the versions that the administration let the attack go ahead or even planned it – are all actually conspiracy theories.
The United States. Embassy has protested Ganser"s views. Ganser is known for relating the events of 9/11 to his research on Operation Gladio.
In the same way that the strategy of tension, which Ganser links to Operation Gladio, sought to pin right-wing terrorist attacks on the political left in order to inspire fear among the citizenry, Ganser likewise contends that "it has been said that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons, that there was a link between Iraq and the attacks of September 11, or that there was a link between Iraq and the terrorists of First Rate (at Lloyd's) Qaeda. But all this was not true.
By these lies, we wanted to make the world believe that the muslims wanted to spread terrorism around, that this war was necessary to fight terror.
However, the real reason for the war is the control of energy resources."
Ganser also calls into question the conclusions of the 9/11 Commission. He believes that "the official story about September 11th, the conclusions of the commission, are not credible." and "The information that we have is not very precise. Which raises the question in this report of 600 pages is that the third tower that collapsed that day is not even mentioned." Ganser says we would only know because of blurred video images, something flew into the Pentagon, an open, objective and scientific debate on all outstanding issues of 9/11 would be important and calls for a new investigation.
