Original title: Body seen in secret mortuary could solve 50-year mystery of vanished religious leader
Body seen in secret mortuary could solve 50-year mystery of vanished religious leader 10 hours ago Share Save Moe Shreif BBC Eye Investigations Share Save BBC Musa al-Sadr has been missing since 1978 Warning: Contains images some may find upsetting A computer scientist at a university in the north of England is studying an image of a corpse - attempting to solve a mystery that has gripped the Middle East for nearly 50 years. “This is what he looks like now?” asks Bradford University’s Prof Hassan Ugail doubtfully. The digitised photo is of a decomposed face and it is about to be run through a special algorithm for our BBC investigation. The original photo was taken by a journalist who saw the body in a secret mortuary in the Libyan capital in 2011. He was told then that it could be charismatic cleric Musa al-Sadr, who vanished in Libya in 1978. Sadr’s disappearance has spawned endless conspiracy theories. Some people believe he was killed, while others claim he is still alive and being