US Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday called the man who fatally shot four US Marines and a Navy sailor a "perverted jihadist" during a eulogy for the servicemen at a memorial in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Biden told a packed arena that the ideology that drove Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, a 24-year-old engineer, to go on a rampage at two local military facilities was no match for national character.
"When this perverted jihadist struck, everyone responded," Biden said. "We have a message for those perverted cowards around the world. America never yields, never bends, never cowers and never stands down."