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Afghanistan slips from public radar Fremont's 'Little Kabul' much quieter four years after attacks FREMONT — In the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, microphones and TV cameras bombarded Fremont restaurant owner Wahid Andesha. BBC, CNN and other major news networks broadcast worldwide his feelings about the brazen terrorist assault and the ensuing U.S. invasion of his native Afghanistan. And some 15 news vans camped out in front of the cluster of Afghan-owned businesses along Fremont Boulevard in Centerville that the world came to know as "Little Kabul." Today, four years after the attacks, Afghanistan has largely disappeared from...

A movie theater next to an Afghan restaurant in the Little Kabul area of Fremont, Calif., displays a sign thanking President Bush for the elections in Afghanistan.