Membership
The MEK was believed to have a 5,000–7,000-strong armed guerrilla group based in Iraq before the 2003 war, but a membership of between 3,000–5,000 is considered more likely. In 2005 the US think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations believed that the MEK had 10,000 members, one-third to one-half of whom were fighters. The think-tank claims that MEK membership dwindled and that the organization had little success attracting new recruits. According to a 2003 article by the New York Times, the MEK was composed of 5,000 fighters based in Iraq, many of them female.
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