By KAREN GULLO, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal authorities have charged the first person with
aiding the terrorist hijackers, according to court documents released
Monday. The number of people arrested or detained in the wide-ranging
investigation grew to 352.

Herbert Villalobos was charged in federal court in suburban Virginia with
aiding one of the suspected hijackers to fraudulently obtain a Virginia
identification card a month before the Sept. 11 attacks.

A second man who aided with the I.D.'s is cooperating and was not charged,
prosecutors said. The court records disclosed as many as five of the
hijackers got Virginia cards in the month before the attacks.

Meanwhile, the terrorism investigation proceeded on several fronts.

Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) disclosed that 352 people
have been arrested or detained in the investigation and an additional 392
people were being sought for questioning about the attacks in New York and
Washington.

``We think they have information that could be helpful to the
investigation,'' the attorney general told lawmakers.

The Federal Aviation Administration (news - web sites) grounded farm crop
dusters another day for fear they could be used in a biological or chemical
attacks - a ban that was being lifted at midnight - and also considered
asking airports and airlines to take new precautions with their own workers.

The FAA said it was considering requiring that the workers' identifications
be verified, followed by new checks of employment histories and possible
criminal backgrounds.

The order on background checks would affect tens of thousands of airport
workers who have access to secure locations in airports, people such as
baggage handlers, food service workers and mechanics.

Initially, FAA officials said the order had been given. But late Monday, the
agency said it was still considering the idea and hadn't formally acted. The
agency has asked airports and airlines to make sure that identification
badges used by employees with secure access are valid.

In Florida, court records in Broward County showed one of the 19 hijack
suspects was wanted on an arrest warrant at the time of the attacks.

A bench warrant was issued June 4 for Mohamed Atta for failing to appear in
court on a charge of driving without a license. Atta's Florida driver's
license was revoked on Aug. 23.

``There's over 200,000 warrants in the system,'' county sheriff's
spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright said. ``So naturally, you're going to make
sure you're going out and getting those wanted for murder. This is not one
that's going to jump out at you.''

In Virginia, an FBI (news - web sites) affidavit filed in federal court
alleged that as many as five hijackers - Hani Hanjour, Salem Al-Hamzi, Majed
Moqed, Ahmed Saleh Alghamdi and Abdulaziz Alomari - went to the Department
of Motor Vehicles in Arlington, Va., on Aug. 2.

All five were at the office that day to ``conduct transactions relating to
Virginia identification cards,'' the affidavit said.

The affidavit alleges that Villalobos and a second man - his identity not
revealed because he is a confidential witness - signed identity papers for
the hijackers.

The affidavit said Villalobos, using the alias Oscar Diaz, signed papers
certifying that Alomari lived in Virginia. Alomari has been identified as a
hijacker of a Boston flight that crashed into the World Trade Center.

The second man, a confidential witness, signed both a residency
certification and an identity affidavit that was used by Alghamdi to obtain
an identification card, the affidavit said. Alghamdi has been identified as
a hijacker of the second plane that struck the Trade Center.

The affidavit said the unidentified local man was standing in a parking lot
near the motor vehicles office along with several other men, including
Villalobos, when three men approached in a van and asked for help in getting
Virginia identification cards.

Villalobos and his acquaintances then drove together to an attorney's office
nearby with the others following. The papers, which can be used as
identification for getting driver's licenses and state identification cards,
require the signature of a notary public.

In Michigan the president of a truck driving school confirmed two men
arrested last week had taken attended the school and one of them obtained a
permit to transport hazardous materials.

Karim Koubriti, 23, and Ahmed Hannan, 33, arrested Sept. 17, attended the
U.S. Truck Driver Training School in Detroit this summer, said the school's
president, Joseph LaBarge. Koubriti passed the state commercial drivers
license exam on Aug. 22 and received a permit to transport hazardous
materials. Hannan failed the road test, LaBarge said.

As for the crop dusters, Ashcroft told the House Judiciary Committee (news -
web sites) the FBI had gathered information raising fears the small farm
planes could be used in a biological or chemical attack. ``There is no clear
indication of the time or place of these attacks,'' he said.

Ashcroft said that Atta, one of the hijackers, had shown interest in crop
dusters and that another person now in federal custody had downloaded
computer information about the planes.

J.D. ``Will'' Lee, 62, general manager of South Florida Crop Care in Belle
Glade, said Monday that groups of two or three Middle Eastern men came by
almost every weekend for six or eight weeks before the terrorist attacks,
including the weekend just before the assaults.

Lee said a co-worker, James Lester, positively identified one as Atta.

In other developments:

-The Coast Guard is requiring that incoming vessels supply local port
officials with the identities of crew members and passengers. ``We want to
identify individuals and cargos that should not get into the United
States,'' Capt. Mike Lapinski said.

-Nabil Al-Marabh, 32, a convenience store clerk arrested in Chicago last
week by an FBI-led terrorism task force, was transferred to New York
following four days of questioning, FBI spokeswoman Virginia Wright said.

-A San Diego Zoo security guard told the FBI she recalled finding a metal
case at the zoo several weeks ago that may have belonged to suspected
hijacker Hanjour, zoo spokeswoman Christine Simmons said. The case, which
contained identification, some other papers and possibly cash, was claimed
from the zoo's lost and found. The zoo kept no record of who claimed it,
Simmons said.

-In the crash of United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania, the FBI has determined
from the onsite investigation that no explosive was involved. Passengers on
the flight said in cell phone calls that one man had what appeared to be a
bomb strapped to him.

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