I remember, I once stumbled on an ex-Googler who went to Syria to open an IT business there before the civil war, in Moscow airport, who fled when the civil war

I remember, I once stumbled on an ex-Googler who went to Syria to open an IT business there before the civil war, in Moscow airport, who fled when the civil war started, and he had to flee with just his credit card, and ID documents. He was stuck there, living in the no man's land between gates and the immigration. And he also was pleading every English speaker he met there to contact his congress rep. I never found out how the story ended.