Lufti Al-Arabi Al-Gharisi

Who is Lufti Al-Arabi Al-Gharisi?

Lutfi al-Arabi al-Gharisi is a citizen of Tunisia held in extrajudicial detention by the United States.

On January 15, 2010, the Department of Defense complied with a court order and published a heavily redacted list of Captives held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility. There were 645 names on the list, which was dated September 22, 2009. One of the names was Lutfi al-Arabi al-Gharisi.

Historian Andy Worthington, author of the The Guantanamo Files, speculated that Lutfi al-Arabi al-Gharisi may have been a Tunisian, identified by human rights groups as a ghost prisoner. If so he was captured in late 2002 in Peshawar, Pakistan. Worthington reported this individual was held in the CIA's "dark prison", and several other CIA black sites. Worthington speculated that he might also have been a Tunisian captive identified by Marwan Jabour, named "Hudeifa".