What do you make of Israel and Imad? Wouldn't Israel have some images of him during his recent travels even if he travels in full head cover? Spy planes and satellites must have caught something at the terror meetings that Israel seemed to know about in advance. Or is Israel's 2006 intel on Imad based on casual human intel and reports alone? I wonder.
I'd think all sorts of people over the years tried to find/track him. But obviously they haven't gotten close enough to get him. The recent stories make it sound like he goes to Tehran a lot and that his family is there. But if someone (America, Israel, UK, etc) came across an individual close enough to him to hold up a cell phone (or some such thing) and take a picture, I don't think those pics would make it into the public domain for fear of turning the hypothetical aspiring young photographer into a human shish kebab. After all, Imad's former "comrade in arms" who was an Iranian special forces commander in 1980s Lebanon (an assassin and super-terrorist in his own right) is now the Prez.
Hence, my comment that if one were to be in a position to have secretly taken a recent (quality) photo of him as he really appears apart from any garb or disguise, then if those pictures ever appeared in public, the person who took them probably would either choose to disappear from sight themselves, or else be made to disappear permanently.
Same goes for anyone that might ever get close enough to Bin Laden to get a fix on him. Such a pic of either man (and associated info) would more likely be sold to a government buyer for much more than a paper or news network could or would ever pay. And part of any such transaction would likely be that the pic and its owner would be protected. And therefore, neither would see the light of day.