According to The Daily Mail (UK), * Hasan "was forcefully opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was trying to elude his pending deployment to Afghanistan." He was born in Arlington, Virginia. Malik graduated from Virginia Tech University ('97) before joining the military. He received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (F. Edward Herbert School Of Medicine) in Bethesda, Md., in 2001 . Malik completed a six year residency in psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D. C., (2007), where he received a poor performance evaluation. He received his license in psychiatry on July 12, 2005.