Dr. Samia Abdel Rahim Maimani was Saudi Arabia’s first female neurosurgeon. She was ambitious to serve as a neurosurgeon as her father had died from a skull fracture that resulted from a car accident. Her greatest achievement was finding a procedure that helps in accessing the brain without the bone flap being removed.
Samia was born in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on August 8, 1955. She enrolled in the College of Medicine at King Faisal University, after being affected by the tragic death of her father, Abdul Rahim Maimani. However, she faced other scientific challenges, as there are no advanced studies in neurosurgery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Later, she attended the renowned Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in the United States. The University has a research center that provides rigorous clinical training and cutting-edge research opportunities. During her study, she was able to achieve her goals and made astonishing scientific achievements and inventions in her field of study. The Saudi doctor obtained patents in several medical fields.
The three inventions of Dr. Maimani:
* The nerve relaxation device
It consists of simulation units using advanced computers with which she can control paralyzed cranial nerves, moving them and healing them.
* The Gong device
It is a device through which she can control nerve cells with a very precise timing between opening and closing them. This device is unique and the only one in the world that performs this task.
* A device for early detection of brain cancer.
Dr. Maimani has obtained patents for her three inventions from the American Medical Council.
What happened next?
The conflict began when one of the largest medical device manufacturers companies offered her the right to waive her patent in exchange for the usual: millions of dollars, a comfortable and dignified life, and a US passport.
Dr. Maimani met these tempting offers with a traditional "sorry no can do!" She vehemently refused, saying, "The benefits of my invention will extend to the entire world, not just a specific region."
The young doctor was subjected to many pressures but she did not flinch and continued her studies and achievements, dreaming of diseases being defeated by her inventions. Sadly, there were those who do not desire the actual cure for diseases as much as they desire to collect billions of dollars in profit.
Dr. Maimani's life was cut short
According to California State Police reports, Dr. Maimani was brutally murdered in her apartment on October 20, 1997. According to the police report, she died of suffocation. Her body was found inside a broken refrigerator laying on the street. As indicated in the case file, the guard of the building in which Dr. Maimani lived was arrested based on crime scene fingerprints. Dr. Maimani was 42 years old at the time of her death. (Source: Wikipedia)
Adding to the tragedy, Ahsan Ali Abbasi wrote an article in the Medium in June 2024, where he stated that the case remains shrouded in doubt, leaving open the possibility of foul play. The disappearance of Dr. Maimani's intellectual property further fuels speculation about the motives behind her murder.
Given all the facts in Dr. Maimani's case, her murder smells fishy all the way to the highest Heaven. That leaves no doubt that Dr. Maimani's murder was a result of contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) and is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of compensation, monetary or otherwise. Nevertheless, Dr. Samia Maimani will always be remembered as Saudi Arabi's first female neurosurgeon.
While searching for information about Dr. Maimani's murder for this article, I sadly learned about at least five more Arab scientists who died suddenly and mysteriously. Here are their names with a brief info:
2- Samir Najib, he was a great Egyptian atomic scientist who served at the University of Detroit as Assistant Professor of Biology. He was killed on August 17, 1967, in a hit and run accident on the day he decided to return back to his home country in Egypt.
3- Nabil Al Kalani, he was another Egyptian scientist who died mysteriously. He was the one who discovered that one kg of uranium expels 3 million time the energy of oil and gas. On January 27, 1975, his body was found in a river without identification.
4- Hassan Al Sabbah is a Lebanese scientist who graduate from the American University of Beirut. He was a great electrical and electronic engineer, whose research were able to yield 52 inventions. He tragically died in a car accident on March 31, 1935.
5- Ali Mostafa Moshrefa, he was the first Egyptian to hold a degree in Doctor of Science and known as the Arab Einstein. He worked with Albert Einstein and died of a sudden heart attack. Some claimed he was killed by the Israeli Mossad without providing a proof.
6- Yahya Mashad, an Egyptian nuclear scientist who was found dead on June 14,1980 in his hotel room in Paris. In 1991, ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky who fled to Canada published his book “By way of deception" in which revealed Mashad's assassination. I happened to have read that book which consists of 978 pages in one night back in 1993, while I was on my 9th Annual Tour with my USAF reserve unit in Wisconsin. Mossad attempted to block publishing the book in a Canadian court several times, but it lost its battle.
The death of these six bright people was a great loss, and we may never know killed them all and why. One thing we know for sure is that Israel has a long history of assassinating scientific elites across the world, including the many assassinations of Iranian prominent physicists and nuclear scientists around the globe. So, if it was not Israel behind those crimes, then who? At the very least Victor Ostrovsky, the former Israeli Mossad agent confessed to Mossad agents were behind one of the six murders.
Mahmoud El-Youseph is a Palestinian freelancer and Ret. USAF veteran: He could be reached at elyousseph6@yahoo.com
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