 In October, his son sent him a text message saying that he wanted to study "sharia" and Arabic in a seven-year course in Yemen.His father threatened to cut off his funding, whereupon his son said he was "already getting everything for free".Mutallab reported to two CIA officers at the US Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, on 19 November 2009, regarding his son's "extreme religious views", and told the embassy that he might be in Yemen.