Police in Scotland will investigate allegations that American CIA “extraordinary rendition” flights passed through Scottish airport, taking people deemed to be terrorists to black sights in countries that allow torture during interrogation.

Scottish police investigated similar claims about rendition flights in 2007 and 2008 but were stymied by a lack of evidence.  But a recent report by the Open Society Justice Initiative says as many as 54 nations including Scotland aided the CIA's rendition and detention operations.  It said more than 130 people were detained and detailed allegations of harsh treatment of some of the suspects.

Scottish MPs are urging the chief prosecutor Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland not to delay in investigating because the “evidence is there in front of his eyes.”

The researchers at the University of Kent and at Kingston University in London, found that Wick, Aberdeen and Inverness airports could have been used in the rendition of terrorist suspects.