Ashmead Choate

Ashmead Choate is an Trinidadian Islamic scholar. In 2011, he was accused of attempting to assassinate the then-Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar. He later joined the Islamic State.
History
He was born in Craignish Village, east of Princes Town, in the south of the island of Trinidad.
At some point he studied at the University of the West Indies in St Augustine, Trinidad. He was a teacher at Moruga Secondary School.
He studied hadith in Saudi Arabia at the Islamic University of Madinah. He opened the Darul Qur'an Wal Hadith Islamic School in Calcutta No 2, Freeport, Caroni County in 2003. He was the principal of the school which is funded by charity with an enrolment of some 100 pupils.
He visited Houston at some point and met Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi.
He was detained in November 2011 under the Emergency Power Regulations 2011 alongside 15 other men. He was arrested as part of a conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, Housing and Environment Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal and Local Government Minister Chandresh Sharma. Detention order 238, issued for Choate, of Princes Town, states Choate has been identified as “the mastermind behind a plot to destabilise Trinidad and Tobago and cause major panic”.
On 7 December 2011, he denied trying to assassinate Kamla Persad-Bissessar. He said, "For somebody to be falsely accused of being the mastermind in a plot to kill the Prime Minister and other ministers, it was a harrowing experience."

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