"Good and kind people outnumber all others by thousands to one. The tragedy of human history lies in the enormous potential for destruction in rare acts of evil, not in the high frequency of evil people."

--Stephen Boyd, Evolutionary Biologist Harvard University

This page contains information The Rick A. Ross Institute has gathered about al-Qaeda.

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