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By Charlotte Bruneau and Maad Mohammed BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – When Iraqi-born American entrepreneur Emad Ballack watched footage of war breaking out in Ukraine from his office in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region, he decided he had to act. As civilians started to pour out of the country, Ballack, who is an ethnic Kurd, began a four-day trip to Kyiv, a city he has called home for the last eight years. “I was not scared but more worried about how I would manage to get into the country,” he said. During his journey by plane and train, the 45-year-old started to think about how he could us…