Topeka ? Kansas officials offered little comment Friday about the latest FBI terror bulletin.

“We don’t want to do the leg work for them,” said Maj. Gen. Greg Gardner, state adjutant general and homeland security director.

The “them” Gardner referred to are individuals who wish to inflict significant harm against Kansans.

Gardner said he had reviewed the latest intelligence bulletin suggesting that new attacks on the United States were likely based on “chatter” associated with known terrorist cells. It was the 38th such bulletin issued and reviewed by Gardner since Sept. 11, 2001.

The FBI bulletin said there was credible information that al-Qaida or other terrorists were likely to target locations of high symbolic value, cause mass casualties and inflict severe damage to the economy.

Gardner receives daily intelligence briefings from military and law enforcement agencies. He said information from those briefings was applied when it could relate to Kansas, with an appropriate security response.

For example, in July, the state assigned Army National Guard troops to provide security during the weeklong U.S. Women’s Open golf tournament in Hutchinson.

Gardner said Kansas identified potential targets during a threat assessment that was completed in October 2001. It used the same criteria established by the federal agencies, which put focus on Kansas’ livestock, aviation, nuclear and chemical assets.

While security has remained heightened, Gardner declined to say what additional steps, if any, had been taken in light of the new FBI warning.

“These threats are similar to what we have experienced before,” Gardner said, noting that Kansas and the rest of the nation remained at the code yellow threat alert status. “There was nothing specific in this information.”