Wikinews Shorts: August 14, 2009

Bali bomber still at large
A body recovered by Indonesian police on August 8th is not that of. The Indonesian authorities had been optimistic that Top, the mastermind behind the, had been killed on Saturday in a gun battle that concluded a 17 hour siege in the  district of Central.

suggests that the body is that of a man identified only as Ibrahim, a florist who was the inside man in the in  this July.

Sources

Obama health reforms faces grassroots opposition
Attempts by President Barack Obama to reform the in the United States has been met with  opposition. Critics fear that Obama's reforms are an attempt to health care. However, the President has dismissed such apprehension as an attempt to "scare and mislead" by vested interests hoping to derail the reforms.

Opposition which feature the alleged failures and rationing of healthcare in the British  (NHS), have been rebutted by citizens, politicians and the media. Spurred on by American commentators that described that the NHS as "evil' and, with over a million responses to an on-line campaign, called welovetheNHS started in support of the NHS.

Sources

British deaths in Afghanistan reaches 199
Three British soldiers of have been killed by an whilst on foot patrol near the town of  in, Afghanistan.

The death of the soldiers — two from the and one from  — brings the number of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2001 to 199.

"[These deaths] brings us very close to the sad milestone of 200 fatalities in this conflict. We cannot help but reflect on the toll the mission has taken..." said, the British.

Sources