Had to keep him on ice for the election.
Frozen isn't as good as fresh but you have to go with what you got.
AQ and ISIS bigshots are like cats with up to 9 lives. So many of them are killed by a drone or missile or bomb strike only to be killed again later by yet another drone, plane or missile strike. Quite a gimmick. Maybe they need to come up with real verifiable method of identifying smoking piles of bones thousands of miles away in some primitive rock pile.