New Delhi: After Taliban leader Mullah Omar escaped from advancing US forces on a Honda motorcycle, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf jokingly advised the Japanese prime minister that the terrorist should be made a brand ambassador for the automobile major.
Giving details about Omar and al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in his book In the Line of Fire: A Memoir, Musharraf said the US started massive carpet-bombing of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.
The Northern Alliance simultaneously launched a land offensive. This led to Taliban cadres fleeing from Afghanistan into the mountains.
"In the first week of December 2001, Mullah Omar, sensing defeat, escaped on a Honda motorcyle and went into hiding," Musharraf wrote in his book.
"Once when Japanese Prime Minister (Junichiro) Koizumi asked me about the whereabouts of Mullah Omar, I told him that Omar had escaped on a Honda motorcyle," Musharraf said.
Musharraf then suggested to Koizumi that the "best advertisement for Honda would be an advertising campaign showing Mullah Omar fleeing on one of its motorcyles with his robes and beard flowing in the wind".
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