AS NIGERIAN officials announced arrests in connection with the deadly bombing of a church on Christmas Day, US officials and analysts said the violence underscored the increasing ability of a shadowy Islamist insurgency to carry out complex strikes against multiple targets, complicating the fight against it.
Nigeria's National Security Adviser, Owoeye Azazi, said two men had been arrested in connection with the bombing.
They were suspected of being members of the Boko Haram sect, which claimed responsibility for attack.
They were ''caught in the act'', he said.
Mr Azazi said three suspects had driven past the church in Madala, on the outskirts of the capital, Abuja, throwing a bomb into the church ''from a moving vehicle in the glare of everyone''. One of the men died in the explosion, he said.
