The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and her Carrier Strike Group observed passing westward through the Strait of Malacca overnight Sunday, on their way to the Indian Ocean and eventually the Middle East.
During the 2006 senatorial campaign, it was revealed that Allen's mother, Henrietta Lumbroso, was born to Sephardic Jewish parents in Tunisia.[4] In a 2006 debate, Allen referred to his mother as being "French-Italian, with a little Spanish blood in her."[5]