page_title: Rendition aircraft
section_title: N85VM
hierarchical_section_title: Rendition aircraft / N85VM
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Een Gulfstream IV van de Koninklijke LuchtmachtEnglish: A Gulfstream IV of the Royal Netherlands Airforce
context_page_description: This page describes several aircraft that are alleged in media reports to have been used in the practice of extraordinary rendition, the extralegal transfer of prisoners from one country to another.
context_section_description: N85VM was the tail number of a Gulfstream IV which newspaper reports have speculated may have been used as a US Department of Defense or CIA prisoner transport. Plane logs obtained by reporters show that the plane was in Cairo on February 18, 2003, the same day that the radical Egyptian cleric Abu Omar arrived in Cairo after being abducted in Italy, leading reporters to speculate that the Gulfstream IV may have been the plane used to render Abu Omar.  American and Italian intelligence officers were later charged with Abu Omar's abduction.
  In addition to the trip to Cairo, between June 2002 and January 2005, the aircraft made 51 trips to Guantánamo Bay, as well as 82 visits to Dulles International Airport and Andrews Air Force Base. It also visited U.S. air bases at Ramstein and Rhein-Main in Germany, Afghanistan, Morocco, Dubai, Jordan, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Azerbaijan and the Czech Republic.
caption: A Gulfstream IV
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