The militia leader, Abu Salim, was **t in the house at the time of the attack, which involved more than a dozen vehicles and fighters armed with heavy machine guns and other ******* and also left two of his young sons wounded. Fighters attacked the militia leader's house in Jilam, a suburb of the predominantly Sunni city of Samarra, at around midnight on Saturday, and killed Abu Salim's wife, two sons and a**ther woman, a police colonel and a**ther ******r said. Abu Salim is the leader in Jilam of the Sahwa, or Awakening, a collection of mostly-Sunni tribal militias that from late-2006 onwards sided with US forces against their co-religionists in Al-Qaeda, helping turn the tide of Iraq's insurgency.