Because the date of the attack had been changed, the terrorist didn’t know exactly where their intended target, the President, would be physically located inside the building, but there were only so many areas the rockets could reach.
The group had been notified by their source that the President would be inside the White House when the attack took place, but that was all he could tell them.
As it turned out, the President was in one of the sub-levels beneath the White House in a meeting when the attack occurred, and was out of harm’s way during the entire strike.
Of the six missiles that made it out of the launcher, one hit a car traveling on E Street NW, but the other five did extensive damage to the back side of the White House in the South Portico area, especially the Blue Room on t
