KAMPALA, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Ugandan security forces have arrested two former rebels, including a rebel commander, in connection with a grenade blast that killed another ex-insurgent working for Uganda's army anti-terrorism unit.

Issa Lubega and another man were killed when a grenade blew up the car they were travelling in on Friday.

He had defected to the government in 2000 from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a group blamed for a string of deadly bomb attacks in Kampala in the late 1990s before its defeat.

"We've made two arrests. Both were ADF ... one a former ADF commander," army spokesman Major Felix Kulayigye said.

Kulayigye said the army was still not certain that the blast was an attack on Lubega. "The investigation will reveal it," he said.

"We're arresting suspects acting on leads, which we can't discuss in the media," Kulayigye said. "(The former commander) made some contacts with another person apparently with the intention to commit this crime," he said.

The ADF, a mixture of Islamist and secular rebels, also attacked villages in western Uganda from bases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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