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A French Moroccan man was charged yesterday with helping Osama bin Laden and the 19 hijackers plan the Sept. 11 attacks.</br></br>Zacarias Moussaoui was already in jail when the terrorists struck on Sept. 11. He had tried to take flying lessons last summer, but flight schools officials were suspicious of the reasons he gave for studying flying and called the police. Soon after, he was arrested and charged with breaking U.S. immigration laws.</br></br>The government says that Moussaoui had been trained in terrorist camps run by bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist organization in Afghanistan.</br></br>Moussaoui was charged three months after the attacks. He was the first person to be charged with a crime connected with Sept. 11.</br></br>The Federal Reserve, the part of the government that orders coins to be minted, ordered too many. There are 2.4 billion pennies, 480 million nickels, 470 million dimes, 1.8 billion quarters, 62 million half-dollars and 192 million Sacagawea golden dollars stuffed into government vaults and armored cars around the country.