WASHINGTON, Jan 18: The White House said on Friday it had no information relating to President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s reported statement that he thought Osama bin Laden most likely had died because of lack of dialysis for a kidney ailment.

CNN had quoted Gen Musharraf as telling it in an interview: “I think now, frankly, he is dead for the reason he is a patient, he is a kidney patient. We know that he donated two dialysis machines to Afghanistan. One was specifically for his own personal use. I don’t know if he has been getting all that treatment in Afghanistan now. And the photographs that have been shown of him on television show him extremely weak. ... I would give the first priority that he is dead and the second priority that he is alive somewhere in Afghanistan.”

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told his regular briefing on Friday he did not know anything about the news.