Elders of the village in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula where terrorists killed hundreds of people in a mosque on Friday had been warned by Islamic State (ISIS) operatives to stop collaborating with security forces and to suspend rituals associated with Islam's mystical Sufi movement, security officials and residents said Sunday, according to The Associated Press.
The latest warning came as recently as a week ago, telling villagers in Al-Rawdah not to hold Sufi rituals on November 29-30 to commemorate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, according to residents and the officials who work for security and military intelligence agencies operating in Sinai.
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