When you get to his age (80’s?), most people will have near the same routine week after week, if not day after day, so yes, 6 months seems like quite a while to wait. Maybe the CIA didn’t know the religious calendar in Afghanistan, and didn’t want to start something up when the majority of the population would already be sitting around fully armed, in their case, for celebratory gunfire. Who really knows?
Piss’n off the balcony after he wakes up in the morning?